1911 grips with nazi symbol & mexican eagle
purchased a Us govt 191 with cienan .22 conversion unit on it
but when I started looking at it it had both grips with a Mexican eagle and a nazi symbol
took it to a jewler and he ran a test and said the symbols were gold they are not real big .. he said do not try to clean..
does anyone about these grips. ?
I read a little on Inet and there was a nazi party there until 1942
but when I started looking at it it had both grips with a Mexican eagle and a nazi symbol
took it to a jewler and he ran a test and said the symbols were gold they are not real big .. he said do not try to clean..
does anyone about these grips. ?
I read a little on Inet and there was a nazi party there until 1942
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Ciener conversions were first made in the 90's. After he got out of the machine gun business. 1911 grips, are easily swapped between older and newer made guns.
Unless you are able to track down a previous owner, likely it's going to stay a mystery?
Post photos of the grips, on the various gun forums and blogs. Might find somebody that knows about them.0 -
the grips are really old maybe older than me and I was nacio in 40' 0 -
quote:Originally posted by o b juan
the grips are really old maybe older than me and I was nacio in 40'
What is the vintage of the Colt? Give us a serial number, with the last 3 digits "X" out, so we can date it.0 -
Native Americans had the walking sticks symbol long before Hitler appropriated it as the swastika. I would think a Mexican eagle would have a snake in its talon, a German eagle not so much.
Maybe Argentina or the boys from Brazil.
Good pic's would help.0 -
As Charlie said, the "broken cross" symbol is far older than the Nazis. It was used by Native Americans, it was used in the Orient, I have found it o the receiver of a Chinese machine gun- and before WW 2, it was used by the Boy Scouts (look up Order of the White Swastika)
Put some pictures up, let the folks take a peek.0
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