1911 with AA REBUILD

[Chefbart]

Your question:
Augusta Arsenal rebuild Remington Rand 1911A1 slide with 1918 produced 1911 frame. Pistol is marked AA for Augusta Arsenal rework. Serial number 239xxx is this a colt frame? What is it worth ? Can anyone tell me more about the pistol?

 

[cecILL]

Hello, the guys here can help, but you'll need to post pictures.
Could be a couple hundred to a couple thousand.

 

[highpower3006]

You pretty much answered your own question. The frame is a Colt. Value is subjective at this point as it is a typical post WWII mixmaster. While I am sure that there are sellers out there that will think that it is worth a year of their child's college tuition, in reality it should be worth something well under a thousand dollars.

 

[James K]

When pistols were sent to an arsenal or depot as unserviceable, the instructions were "throw slides in pile A, throw frames in pile B". Each part was then inspected so see if it was serviceable and could be used in a rebuilt pistol, or was unserviceable, and was to be discarded.

They then re-assembled the serviceable parts into pistols and shipped them out to the troops.

No one, repeat no one, cared if a Remington Rand slide went on a Colt frame, or if an Ithaca slide stop went into a Singer pistol. To the depot folks, a rifle or a pistol was a means of killing the country's enemies and they didn't give a rodent's rear end about collectors who wouldn't be born for 40 years.

Jim