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Private collection
Colt Model 1909 Serial Number 18 - The model 1909 was
a very low production gun shipped as a test gun to various
destinations between 1910 and 1911. It is a prototype model
incorporating many of the features that were carried forward
to the model that eventually became the Model 1911.
There were just 23 of these guns manufactured from serial
number "0" to serial number "22". As prototypes, they were
shipped to a few destinations for various tests and
evaluations. Serial number 7 was shipped three times,
first on March 19, 1910 to Col. John T. Thompson
[from 1907 to 1914, Thompson was the Senior Assistant in the
Office of the Chief of Ordnance, and later was the inventor
of the Thompson Submachine gun] (along with 5, 7, 8,12, 15,
19-21 (loan - ret'd)), second on May 9, 1911 the gun
was again shipped to Albert Foster, Jr. (Foster was Colt's
New York Agent.) with 4, 5, 7, 14,17, 19, 21 and then
finally on May 25, 1911 from Albert Foster, Jr. to
C.N. Daly along with 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 14,16, 19, 21. (this
may have been a retail sale.)
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