I will start with showing a stainless Gold Cup Enhanced, not distinguishing between Gold Cup and Enhanced features:

SN DG0XXXXE
Apparent features are adjustable rear sight, flat-top, Extended Beavertail, skeletonized Commander hammer, skeletonized  adjustable trigger, extraction port relief cut, front grip-strap relief cut, flat grip strap, diamond checker patterned wrap-around grips Roll-mark on right side "DELTA GOLD CUP."

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Quote from: 18436572 on February 14 2014 01:39:13 PM MST
I will start with showing a stainless Gold Cup Enhanced, not distinguishing between Gold Cup and Enhanced features:

SN DG0XXXXE
Apparent features are adjustable rear sight, flat-top, Extended Beavertail, skeletonized Commander hammer, skeletonized  adjustable trigger, extraction port relief cut, front grip-strap relief cut, flat grip strap, diamond checker patterned wrap-around grips Roll-mark on right side "DELTA GOLD CUP."

As far as I know:
Adjustable rear sight - Stock DGC feature
Flat-top - Stock DGC feature
Extended Beavertail - Not Stock to the DGC
Skeletonized Commander Hammer - Not Stock
Skeletonized  Adjustable Trigger - Stock DGC feature
Extraction Port Relief Cut - Stock DGC feature
Front Grip-Strap Relief Cut - Stock DGC feature
Flat Grip Strap (Main Spring Housing) - Stock DGC feature
Diamond Checker Patterned Wrap-Around Grips - Stock Delta Elite feature
Roll-Mark on right side "DELTA GOLD CUP." - Stock DGC feature

Here's a new listing
Not sure about these pictures either
Note the Muzzle end of the Slide:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=393989747

Quote from: DenStinett on February 14 2014 11:02:07 PM MST

Quote from: 18436572 on February 14 2014 01:39:13 PM MST
I will start with showing a stainless Gold Cup Enhanced, not distinguishing between Gold Cup and Enhanced features:

SN DG0XXXXE
Apparent features are adjustable rear sight, flat-top, Extended Beavertail, skeletonized Commander hammer, skeletonized  adjustable trigger, extraction port relief cut, front grip-strap relief cut, flat grip strap, diamond checker patterned wrap-around grips Roll-mark on right side "DELTA GOLD CUP."

As far as I know:
Adjustable rear sight - Stock DGC feature
Flat-top - Stock DGC feature
Extended Beavertail - Not Stock to the DGC
Skeletonized Commander Hammer - Not Stock
Skeletonized  Adjustable Trigger - Stock DGC feature
Extraction Port Relief Cut - Stock DGC feature
Front Grip-Strap Relief Cut - Stock DGC feature
Flat Grip Strap (Main Spring Housing) - Stock DGC feature
Diamond Checker Patterned Wrap-Around Grips - Stock Delta Elite feature
Roll-Mark on right side "DELTA GOLD CUP." - Stock DGC feature

At this time the only thing I question in your assessment is that grips. Every other delta I have seen has a pebble grain grip, this is distinctly checkered. it could be a production change, I don't know. The beavertail in the video below seems to show the same one that my pistol had. It looks like the E suffix might just be an ad-on to the serial number for unknown reasons.

This guy is doing some videos apparently from the Colt Archives and has some interesting stuff to share. Here is the video on the DEGC which doesn't say much but some of the other ones from him about the Delta Elite are interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkqfB9OmHI

Quote from: DenStinett on February 14 2014 11:13:24 PM MST
Here's a new listing
Not sure about these pictures either
Note the Muzzle end of the Slide:

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=393989747

Are they scratches? Or is it marks from the cosmoline when the gun is removed from the plastic bags the Colts come wrapped in? 

Quote from: 18436572 on February 14 2014 11:38:48 PM MST
At this time the only thing I question in your assessment is that grips. Every other delta I have seen has a pebble grain grip, this is distinctly checkered. it could be a production change, I don't know. The beavertail in the video below seems to show the same one that my pistol had. It looks like the E suffix might just be an ad-on to the serial number for unknown reasons.

This guy is doing some videos apparently from the Colt Archives and has some interesting stuff to share. Here is the video on the DEGC which doesn't say much but some of the other ones from him about the Delta Elite are interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkqfB9OmHI

The Extended Beavertail in the Video is not stock to the DGC
And Colt shipped the DGCs with either a Rap-around Grip as on the Delta Elites or a set of Rubber Slabs

Quote from: 4949shooter on February 15 2014 03:19:51 AM MST
Are they scratches? Or is it marks from the cosmoline when the gun is removed from the plastic bags the Colts come wrapped in? 

I was wondering the same thing
Some very odd shaped marks there
Otherwise, this is a very nice, bone stock piece
If I had the 2K (which may be a bit high), I'd love to add this to my Stable

Quote from: DenStinett on February 15 2014 10:24:22 PM MST


The Extended Beavertail in the Video is not stock to the DGC
And Colt shipped the DGCs with either a Rap-around Grip as on the Delta Elites or a set of Rubber Slabs

This looks to be the same as the beavertail in the gun pictured above. Any knowledge on the change from a pebble grain wrap around grip to the checkered pattern version?

Quote from: DenStinett on February 15 2014 10:24:22 PM MST

Quote from: 4949shooter on February 15 2014 03:19:51 AM MST
Are they scratches? Or is it marks from the cosmoline when the gun is removed from the plastic bags the Colts come wrapped in? 

I was wondering the same thing
Some very odd shaped marks there
Otherwise, this is a very nice, bone stock piece
If I had the 2K (which may be a bit high), I'd love to add this to my Stable

Yes, I would hate to see a nice Gold Cup like this ruined with scratch marks. Hopefully it's just the cosmoline.

DenStinett said

"The Extended Beavertail in the Video is not stock to the DGC
And Colt shipped the DGCs with either a Rap-around Grip as on the Delta Elites or a set of Rubber Slabs"

I think that Colt did ship DEGC with the Duckbill grip safety.  I own two of them and neither gun has been touched

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When it comes to the D  "E"  GC, you may be right Beemer
BUT, when it comes to a STOCK Delta Gold Cup, it come like this:




With a Flat / Squared Grip Safety and Spur Hammer, not with an Extended Beavertail Safety or a Skeletonized Hammer
They may be stock items on the "E" model DGC, which (I must admit) I have little to no experiance with

DenStinett

I am wrong on two points.  I misread you post and I thought you were talking about all Delta Gold Cups.  I just purchased one that ia enhansed and it has the duck bill grip safety.  I have one in the safe and have owned it for ten or more years, so I dug it out and it too is an enhanced model which I did not remember.  My mistake.

No worries Beemer
I LOVE the Delta, be it an Elite, Combat Elite, a Gold Cup, Enhanced or not
The way I see it;
A god invented the 1911 and a Genius chambered it in 10mm