Love seeing your Colts Waltesefalcon! While classic Smith & Wessons have always been my very favorite, I greatly esteem classic Colts and enjoy collecting and using them. The massive and stately Colt New Service is my very favorite Colt revolver of all time. The Colt E and I frame variants: Army Specials, Official Police, Officer's Models, Troopers, 3 5 7s, and of course the Python are an elegant way to do full-sized revolvers that hark back to the superior quality of a bygone era. The D-Frame Colt Police Positive Special and Detective Special are handy and compact.
Here's the trash and the treasures of the E-Frame tribe here in photographs taken to show the continuation of the basic design from the 1908 introduction of the Army Special all the way to the last model produced which is the Python. Top to bottom: a scroungy Army Special in .38 Special from 1915, a quite decent Army Special in .41 Long Colt from 1925, a World War II contract Commando in .38 Special, a 1953 NYPD badge marked Official Police in .38 Special and a 1957 Officers Model Match in .38 Special.
Unbuttoned. I'd posted a forum narrative elsewhere a few years back on the topic of E and I framed Colts so took these photographs.
The two I-Frame Colts the Python and its premium, uncommonly seen, yet unsung predecessor, the Colt 3 5 7 (not really a very imaginative model name huh). Part for part these two mimic the earlier E-Frame models with the only difference being the frame mounted floating firing pin of the I-Frame versus the hammer-mounted firing pin of the E-Frame. The basic size dimensions are the same between the E-Frame and I-Frame.
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