Contact Colt Firearms. They can give you a "factory letter",with will start the search process If you already have the shipping date and destination, the only additional information you are likely to find on a factory letter is the original configuration and unless you are trying to prove that some special feature like ivory grips are factory original, you will not learn anything more than you already know from a factory letter.
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