Not lovely to look at but one that would be interesting if it could talk. Colt Police Positive Special, in .38 special. Serial number 118xxx puts her in 1915 production. These are fairly common handguns in the US, very popular as police issue handguns. What is interesting with this one is the stocks. They are aluminum and painted black. Stamped on the bottom CPD. When I bought this many years ago I was told it was Cincinnati Ohio police issue but I can find no other information or comments on stocks like these being used by the Cincinnati police. However they were clearly used by some police department, the number of cities in Ohio alone big enough to go to such trouble would include Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland. Could even be Chicago Illinois for that matter... Somewhat oversize they fit my hand quite well and were clearly designed so that the butt of the gun could also be used as a club. It shoots well and despite being 99 years old, shoots very accurately and can clearly go right on serving, though I would not use anything other than standard velocity loads in her.
