Colt New Service
Calibre .455
Serial No: 115617
Date: 1915

Price: £850

British Military Contract

This is one of the British contract pistols manufactured in 1915, has Enfield Inspectors & Sold Out of Service marks.

Suitable for Section 7.1 or 7.3

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History

The Colt New Service was introduced in 1898. It was an up-sized and strengthened Colt Model 1892 and Colt Firearms first large caliber revolver with a swing-out hand ejector cylinder. It was made in the popular large caliber revolver cartridges of the day: .38-40, .44-40, .44 Russian, .44 Special, .45 Colt, and .455 Webley.

British .455 Webley Model

In 1899 Canada acquired a number of New Service revolvers (chambered in .45 Colt) for Boer War service, to supplement its existing M1878 Colt Double Action revolvers in the same caliber.

In 1904/5 the North-West Mounted Police in Canada also adopted the Colt New Service to replace the less-than satisfactory
Enfield Mk II revolver in service since 1882.

New Service revolvers, designated as Pistol, Colt, .455-inch 5.5-inch barrel Mk. I, chambered for the .455 Webley cartridge were acquired for issue as "substitute standard" by the British War Department during World War I.
British Empire Colt New Service Revolvers were stamped "NEW SERVICE .455 ELEY" on the barrel.

The Colt New Service was a popular revolver with British officers and many of them had privately purchased their own Colt New Service revolvers in the years prior to World War I as an alternative to the standard-issue Webley Revolver.

This example is in Excellent Condition

Just Been Proofed

Suitable for Section 7.1 / 7.3