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your colt 1911 with the history if you can document it as being at a specific battle during ww2 and the vet who used it with the holster and web belt would be worth a minium of 2000 and who knows where it might go at a auction or to a ww2 collector,,possibly over 5000 ,,the important thing is to get as much information documented as you can if you foster father is still living ,,try to get unit info ,,how he came about it ..what battles it may have been in ,,and anything you can possibly document ,,this gives it provanance,,and collectors pay preimiums for weapons with actual history as opposed to just issued guns that who knows who may have owned it and if it even saw serivce during a battle,,sounds like you have a very nice collectors item,, the holster if it's a brown us marked and dated on the back can bring as much as 150 + depending how nice it is ,,the belts are fairly common and go for around 20.00 if dated,,this will only raise in value as the years go on so try and hang onto it because to your family it's not replaceable and part of the owners life!
bigcurt
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