High Standard 1911. Wartime production?
Have a chance to pick up a 1911 by high standard. Looks to be very old, and has some aftermarket parts added on. Were they ever actually made for the US Military? This one looks too old to be current production.
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Unless you lucked out, and stumbled on a one in a billion 1911. It'a a Parkerized 1911A1 replica, made in the Philippines. It would be the same, as the more common Rock Island 1911's. 0 -
High Standard of Connecticut did not produce any 1911 type pistols.
They did work on a .45 ACP caliber pistol that looked a lot like a Grant Hammond but different internally.
They also manufactured rifle, machine gun, and 1911 pistol barrels during the war.0 -
High standard DID make some barrels for WW II contract 1911A1 pistols . However not Pistols or slides or frames. The current company Does sell a Military look alike /CLONE but not of high quality or Value replacement parts sounds like BUBBA has dinked with a 1911 A1 type pistol and replaced some parts . 1 % chance he improved the orginal $500.00 pistol and 99% chance he made it worst maybe unsafe if he tried to get a GREAT TRIGGER pull[V][:(!]
EDIT Lets start from the original post. You said you have a chance to pick up this pistol but it looks old. Does the current owner say it is Military and he knows how old it is . If he has some story that It was in WW II and he bought it from some OLD guy . I would run NOT WALK away from this chance to PICK it UP . If he says he bought it the way it is and really does not know much about it Then it may be at least worth $300.00 for parts . if he said he changed some parts the value goes down from the $300.00 because he knows he messed it up and is LYING to you saying it is military. then0 -
The fellas may be correct; you might have a gun made by Armscorp of the Philippines. Or, you might have a Mixed Parts Mongrel. Or, you might have ?
Without photos, we're just guessing.
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