Finally, someone speaks with knowledge and understanding of the subject at hand...
The Colt 1911 is a wonderful old treasure and even when they're a century plus in years, they are handsome, well-made, and deadly. A friend of mine has a faded but correct 1911 of 1918 vintage and I'm working on him to sell it to me.
Meanwhile, Frank Luke's .45 has been missing for decades and I hope that I'm the one that finds it again! It was found in France at the spot where he shot down his last observation balloon, then crashed his SPAD and then engaged the Germans with that pistol and then it disappeared.
Now that's a pistol with history.