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- Serial no. 6659, 45 ACP cal., 10 1/2 inch fluted bbl., blue finish, walnut stock. One of the most famous submachine guns in the world, the Thompson rates as one of the truly signature American weapons. While advancements in manufacturing techniques and materials would allow later designs to match or exceed the Thompson’s performance, none of them have managed to do the job with the same level of style and craftsmanship. The Thompson, a product of old-school hand craftsmanship, is virtually synonymous
cost-effective stamped steel substitutes. The records in Herigstad’s “Colt Thompson Submachine Gun” (page 691) show this 1921 as having been part of a four-piece order (but shipped alone on May 16, 1928) for the Buckeye Cycle Company in Akron, Ohio via Auto-Ordnance salesman
E.E. Richardson, later going to the Police Department of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio at an unspecified date, and entering private hands in 1980.
LOT 3376
Documented Law Enforcement Colt Thompson
Model 1921 Submachine Gun, Class III/NFA C&R Fully Transferable Machine Gun, with Case and Accessories
with the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression, being found on both sides of the law during the “gangland” era of American history, and also serving on all Allied fronts of World War II, where it stood tall among its more