Yeah, some of the early 2nd's had fixed like your'un, and the AF survival pistols. The reason mine looks good, is that it is a re-blue that I bought cheap because whoever put it back together screwed up the trigger and sideplate. The pistol was unoperable. When I pointed that out to the shop, they heavily discounted it. It was an easy fix once I got it home. I wasn't going to tell THEM that, as nobody there was capable of the fix anyway. Here's a pic of the sideplate not flush.....

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I put the pic on the colt forum and none of the experts there picked up on it either, until I pointed it out.