My Grandfather left me an original 22/32 grip numbered Beakert.
It has unfortunately seen better days and is retired from active service.


Looking closely you can see grip number 567.


I have yet to have it lettered, But from what I have gathered it appears to fall within the original Beakert SN# range.

On a side note I picked up a J frame 34-1 square butt serialed to 1969 recently.
The weird part is its serial no# at 118XXX is much lower than a J frame model 37 in my collection from 1957 with sn# 177xxx.
Go figure?
Cheers