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vivelacolo
06-02-2014, 01:10
Some pictures have surfaced of a WW1 type 1911 delivered to France with a skeleton stock
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h346/wapiti27/colt_111.jpg (http://s1105.photobucket.com/user/wapiti27/media/colt_111.jpg.html)
http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h346/wapiti27/colt_110.jpg (http://s1105.photobucket.com/user/wapiti27/media/colt_110.jpg.html)
I am familiar with the wooden stock that supposedtly was used in Lebanon but I never saw or heard about such a contraption produced by American makers of the Colt 1911 during or around WW1.
Is that a bubba or is it legit?
Best regards
RRO

kwill
06-02-2014, 01:35
I think it is a home made rig but it is very interesting. How does the top attach to the pistol?

vivelacolo
06-02-2014, 03:02
I think it is a home made rig but it is very interesting. How does the top attach to the pistol?
I do not know... that is all I got those pictures. All I can see a hole in the back strap.
Some collectors in Europe seem to think that it was the way some 1911 were delivered to France during the first war.
RRO

Johnny P
06-02-2014, 06:28
That one probably came as close to France as the other stocks came to Lebanon.