The pistol is fitted with the Model 1911 short, wide spur hammer that was installed when the pistol was returned to Colt in May 1911. An "N" is stamped on the rear face of the lug. The pistol serial number "9" is stamped: (1) on the left side of the frame in front of the slide stop hole, (2) on the inside of the slide in front of the barrel lug cuts and (3) on the matching serialized bottom of the barrel in front of the lug. This pistol has the Colt commercial blue finish on the slide and frame with niter blue rear sight, ejector, slide stop, safety lock, hammer, trigger, magazine catch lock and stock screws. 9 was subsequently sold to Colt's New York Office Manager Albert Foster Jr., on July 14, 1911. 115 of "The Government Models: The Development of the Colt Model of 1911" by Goddard. Military Automatic Pistols 1894-1920" by Ellis/Meadows and on p.
No reason for this decline is specified but the initial presentations are covered in detail on p. Secretary of War Dickinson declined the new pistol.
On pistols 7, 8, and 9 were returned to Colt and fitted with modified hammers. Dickinson, who signed the final approval of the pistol. 9, was designated for presentation to the Secretary of War J. 7-15 were completed following the trials. 1-6 were completed in February 1911 in time for the test. Colt assembled only fifteen Special Army pistols for the 1911 Springfield trials Serial No. The March 1911 pistol trials resulted in the selection of the Colt Model 1911 as the standard Army handgun. The Model 1911 Special Army incorporated improvements designed to address problems that surfaced in the Model 1910 Special Army during the November 1910 pistol trials conducted at Springfield Armory. This Colt Model 1911 Special Army semi-automatic pistol was manufactured in 1910 for the Ordnance trials of the Colt and Savage automatic pistols conducted on Maat Springfield Armory.
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