I would venture a guess that your new 1911A1 Colt was a battlefield loss by an American soldier, that was found by one of your countrymen and carefully hidden and preserved all these years. Congrats on a wonderful souvenier of WW2. Perhaps the methods used to discover the identity of Wm Basti... could be leveraged to investigate the birth and death of Mr. Bastian...
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regards, -John S
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