Originally manufactured in 1914, the opening year of World War One, an included factory letter from 1996 verifies that this pistol was re-acquired by Colt at a later date. The original intention was to use it as a showpiece in a Colt company museum, but the plan fell through, and the pistol was retained in the Engineering Archive to serve as an in-house reference piece, Colt's own hand-picked exemplar of the 1903 Pocket Hammer. Blade front and notch rear sights, with the two-line, two-block address and patents on the left side of the slide ahead of the serrations with the Rampant Colt behind, caliber marking on the right, and the trigger guard is marked "VP/1" on the left side. Fitted with a casehardened hammer, Colt royal blue trigger, niter blue pins and screws, checkered hard rubber grips with Colt banners and Rampant Colts, and a nickel finished magazine marked "PAT'D SEPT.9.1884" on the pinned base. Along with the Colt letter, the pistol also comes with a brass private collection tag and a series of high-gloss photographs of the pistol.