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That means that the gun is probably a military piece and the govt arsenal that maintains the guns refinished it after working on it. The last complete 1911A1 that the U.S. military recieved was in 1945. After that all they did was buy parts that needed replenishing, guns that were broken were stripped and the good parts kept and sorted. I had a 1911 assembled at the Springfield Armory (had little SA stamps all over it) using a Colt slide and Remington Rand frame. It was reparkerized and issued new in 1962 or whenever the Bay of Pigs was.
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