After my wife and I returned from our honeymoon 45 years ago, my new father-in-law handed me a cardboard shoe box and inside were this holstered 1911 U.S.Army .45 Colt with web belt and an Iver Johnson .38 S&W 5 shot revolver with mother of pearl grips. He said that the Colt had belonged to his father who had carried it in France during WWI as an officer in the Transportation Corps.
Photo Dated September 5, 1918, of Grandpa in camp near Paris, France. Unfortunately he isn't wearing his sidearm for the photo.
The Pistol came with 2 two-toned magazines, one with a lanyard loop and one without.
I don't know how long grandpa served in the Army, but I do know he advanced from lieutenant to major since we also have his service medals and rank "jewels".
My in-laws lived in Yonkers, New York (where we were married) and my father-in-law wanted me to have the handguns since he had never registered them and he knew we were going back west to live in Arizona. I still have them both and plan to pass them along to our grandson.
(Before anyone asks: No, I don't store the pistol in its WWI vintage leather holster as my father-in-law did.
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