Got a Gently Used Colt 1991 - Looking to Replace Grips to Stock

I must have already given mine away over the years.
I did find a set of Double Diamond Ebony ones.
I did try :)

Bob R
 
The original M1991A1, made from circa 1992 until 2000, was close to M1911A1 specs, but for Series 80, and taller sights on the former.
The first year of '91A1 production was even parkerized, but that was changed to matte blue.

Colt slowly evolved the gun away from its military-style roots, to the extent that the gun today is almost a ringer for the Mk. IV Series 80 guns that Colt made from the early '80s through 1992.

Colt fans call the early, military-style pistols "Old Roll Mark", which describes the billboard-sized "M1991A1TM" on the left side of the slide, and the later, more refined guns with the "Government Model" rollmark are called "New Roll Mark".
 
Below are photos of a matte blue M1991A1 circa 1997 with black rubbery grips, a blue 1991 circa 2016 with double diamond grips, and a stainless 1911 circa 2012 with double diamond grips. The grips are original to the respective guns, but all interchange between the models. (The 1991 does have a replacement trigger and MSH.)
 

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My "new-ish" stainless 1991 now wears double diamonds that I had laying around in the parts drawer(no clue where I originally got them from) instead of the nasty black rubber grips that came with the gun.

The grips went on with no issues at all.
 
otasan said:
I wonder what the differences are between a 1991 and an M1911A1?
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RickB covered it pretty well. In terms of the grips, the M1991A1 had black, hard rubber grips with a circular Colt emblem, the 1991s come with Rosewood double-diamond checkered grips.

ORM M1991A1:
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NRM 1991:
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