Very nice. Would love to have one like that. Of course I do love the 5" tapered barrel N frames.
The serial seems to indicate a manufacture date of late 1955 or early 1956, no? So this gun set around for a while in inventory. Makes me assume that when the order came in they took some 6.5" guns from the shelf and cut the barrels? Or do you think they manufactured the 5" barrels on special order from scratch?
Here's a great example of a gun that we NOW say; "Gee, that's great! Why don't they still make those!" but when they did make them they didn't sell.
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