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inspector mark
1911 Remington UMC with inspector mark SI7 with eagle above it on left side behing trigger guard. Bridgeport, Conn. Any info. Thanks.
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Standard garden variety inspector's stamp used from May 15, 1918 to sometime in April 1919. However, it sounds like you've got a Colt frame and a Remington-UMC slide. A Rem-UMC frame should also have the initials E.E.C. for Edmund E. Chapman. He was the Army inspector for Remington-UMC pistols. The Eagle head over E1 (early) or E28 later and final symbol would be correct. Eagle/S17 was used on Colt pistols.
Remington-UMC produced 21,676 pistols out of a contract for 500,000 pistols. The serial number range for Rem-UMC is 1 to 21676 (these numbers duplicate numbers used by Colt's during 1912 to early 1913 but the font is different and Rem-UMC start with "NO" whereas Colt's used "No." and later "No" with the "o" underlined There were some problems getting into production including machinist drawings that were wrong as well as gauges that were not delivered by Colt's (one can only wonder if Colt was still stinging from what Remington did to them during the Civil War 50 years prior). If you provide me with the serial number, I can tell you more about your pistol.
The Rem-UMC .45 pistols were well made, first class pistols. They did have some interchangeability problems. The finish was not the best quality but even Colt's finish wasn't as nice as their earlier pistols as less effort was put into polishing the metal prior applying the oven blue. Because of this the finish took on a more black color and that causes pistols of the era to be called Black Army. The finish will actually flake off.
Remington-UMC produced 21,676 pistols out of a contract for 500,000 pistols. The serial number range for Rem-UMC is 1 to 21676 (these numbers duplicate numbers used by Colt's during 1912 to early 1913 but the font is different and Rem-UMC start with "NO" whereas Colt's used "No." and later "No" with the "o" underlined There were some problems getting into production including machinist drawings that were wrong as well as gauges that were not delivered by Colt's (one can only wonder if Colt was still stinging from what Remington did to them during the Civil War 50 years prior). If you provide me with the serial number, I can tell you more about your pistol.
The Rem-UMC .45 pistols were well made, first class pistols. They did have some interchangeability problems. The finish was not the best quality but even Colt's finish wasn't as nice as their earlier pistols as less effort was put into polishing the metal prior applying the oven blue. Because of this the finish took on a more black color and that causes pistols of the era to be called Black Army. The finish will actually flake off.