![]() Blue Book lists $825 for 100% and $750 for 98% with an additional 10% added to the value for the 22 models. The dealer has the gun listed at the high end of current Blue Book values. ![]() You are looking at a fine pre-war revolver. That was changed to the typical Colt clockwise rotation with the second issue OM. Colt started a new serial number series with the introduction of this revolver relative to the older Officers Model revolvers which were first introduced in 1904 more or less with a counter clockwise cylinder rotation. The Third Issue is the 22 version of the OMT first introduced in 1930 and continued until 1949 when the Officers Model Special was introduced. Using the Blue Book notation on "issue", it would be considered a "Third Issue". Little or no production ocurred during the WWII years and Colt assembled the early post war models from parts on hand prior to introducing the Officers Model Special. Your OMT 22 dates out to be 1938 as serial numbers are reported to start with 18,000 in 1938 and start with 21,000 in 1939.
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