I recently acquired a Colt Official Police revolver in .38 spl, born I 1941. The beautiful blue finish is about 90-95 %, no holster wear to speak of, not even any chamber scratches from use. It appears not to have been fired outside the factory. It has a 4 digit number engraved on the bottom of the square butt signifying a badge number perhaps? There is no box or papers. I've seen these on line at various values, from $400 all the way up to $800-$1000. My query is whether to consider it a collector piece or just high quality shootable history? It locks factory tight with a near pristine bore. It's a really cool chunk of American 20th century firearm manufacturing at its height but I don't want to shoot it if it would ruin the value somehow. Also if I did decide to throw some shots downrange, would +p ammodamage it in someway? My research tells me that these were made to handle the hot for the period 38/44 S&W round. So many questions for the gun I dreamt of as a little LEO wannabe. I await your wisdom/opinions, gents. I include some pics if I can figure out how to do that on this forum.