Colt 32. Automatic hammerless

[Browning270]

(Not for sale) A pistol that has been passed down in the family has made it to me. My brother and I were trying to figure out more information and how old it is.



I looked at gun broker and found that the rubbed off wording is “32. Rimless smokeless”

Hoping that someone with more knowledge than us can shed some light!


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[Strummer]

I have one like it . Mine is blued . Mine is rimless .32. My dad has had it 60 years or so and he said he has never shot it . I’m not sure where it came from .

[Sidro]

Serial number says 1909.

[CentralTXHunter]

You can look up SN on colt’s website. I plugged it in and got this:



Believe yours is M1903 Pocket Hammerless manufactured in 1909.


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[sharkhunter]

Wow ! My grandfather was a used car salesman among other things and carried a perl handled 32 colt as his daily carry. I didn’t know him very well but I think he always had a shady deal going and probably somebody after him lol !

[jdg13]

Beautiful gun. The Colt 1903 was chambered in .32 ACP. The Colt 1908 is basically the same pistol with subtle differences in .380. Then there's the 1908 "vest pocket" in .25 ACP. Your 1903 was made in 1909 per the serial.

[Texas Grown]

Wow ! My grandfather was a used car salesman among other things and carried a perl handled 32 colt as his daily carry. I didn’t know him very well but I think he always had a shady deal going and probably somebody after him lol !

My grandfather too, sold used cars (43 years). And had a lone and finance company. He always carried. As did his father, who had a lone and finance company in Ft. Worth also. Both were straight right honest folk. My Gandfather was a pilot before his dad got sick and passed of cancer. He and his brother started a business, Ft. Worth Lone and Finance with the dealership. The police just turned a blind eye to folks in that business because they usually carried large sums of cash, just like bankers did. My grandfather got robbed a few times when we had the office in downtown before the convention center was built. Office stood where the water gardens are today. It was always getting broken into. I remember going with my dad in the middle of the night because the police would call. The office got moved over to E 28th St. just east of Beach after the city forced us to sell. He worked it till he was 83 when he developed colon cancer. Worked 6 days a week serving people. I worked over there also sometimes, just to help him out. He never got robbed or broke into over there. Although we did have some thieves hitting cars for parts sometimes. I finally just started spending the night there with a light on and a shotgun. The theiving stopped after that.




I remember reading about the beginning .32 Autos, designed by John Browning. They were very popular. And sometmes carried by officers/pilots durring the war.

[3ChordTruth]

My grandfather too, sold used cars (43 years). And had a lone and finance company. He always carried. As did his father, who had a lone and finance company in Ft. Worth also. Both were straight right honest folk. My Gandfather was a pilot before his dad got sick and passed of cancer. He and his brother started a business, Ft. Worth Lone and Finance with the dealership. The police just turned a blind eye to folks in that business because they usually carried large sums of cash, just like bankers did. My grandfather got robbed a few times when we had the office in downtown before the convention center was built. Office stood where the water gardens are today. It was always getting broken into. I remember going with my dad in the middle of the night because the police would call. The office got moved over to E 28th St. just east of Beach after the city forced us to sell. He worked it till he was 83 when he developed colon cancer. Worked 6 days a week serving people. I worked over there also sometimes, just to help him out. He never got robbed or broke into over there. Although we did have some thieves hitting cars for parts sometimes. I finally just started spending the night there with a light on and a shotgun. The theiving stopped after that.




I remember reading about the beginning .32 Autos, designed by John Browning. They were very popular. And sometmes carried by officers/pilots durring the war.

What a cool pistol, those .32s are just snake mean I guess. A .32 pistol inspired a famous Robert Johnson blues song, covered by Clapton, Keith Richards etc.

Also, a very cool story about your Grandfather doing business when Fort Worth still got “Western” a lot of the time.

[Texas Grown]

Yah, He11's Half Acre was where the Convention Center is. Almost right across the street from us. The town was full of wine-os that would do anything for a dime/.10 cents. Including eating a light bulb. We had one begging for money come in and do that before my grandfather could run him out. Another time, my dad was working with him. He went to lunch at the caffe' next door. When he went back, to fellers went running out the door and one almost ran into him on the sidewalk. They had just robbed my grandfather and the secretary. My grandfather always told me never let the robbers get upper hand on ya. But they did that day. Lost a couple of guns in the safe on that one too. Granddad had taken his dress coat off just before that happened. He always had a handgun in the pocket of his dress coat.

[Tony Pic]

Very nice pistol. Awesome family heirloom.
This was a John Moses Browning design. One of the many guns he made and sold to Colt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Model_1903_Pocket_Hammerless

[Quackerbox]

I looked one up like this with a grip safety last week. It was marked 32 rimless

A 32 acp case was jammed in the barrel. It had swollen bad enough the extractor wouldnt grab it. It's alleged it was dropped, went off and shot the owner in the clavicle

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[Texas Grown]

Here are some other common terms that people use for the .32 ACP round:

• .32 Automatic
• .32 Auto
• .32 Rimless Smokeless
• .32 Browning Auto
• 7.65mm Browning
• 7.65 Walther

[Browning270]

Thank you for all the cool stories y'all shared. I enjoyed reading them! Thanks to those who found the age on it...makes me wonder the stories the gun could tell over the years!