Well the 1948 guns are just too rare to say much about. The basic post war 5 screw 357 had diamond N frame magnas as standard with from about 1950 to 1953 N frame diamond unrelieved targets as optional. The N frame magnas were hand fit to the frame and will bear the SN on the right grip panel when original. Very few if any target grips were ever SN'd to the gun. That unrelieved type is the type on my 357 in a current thread. That grip type was replaced with the relieved diamond N frame target, which was then replaced by the coke bottle type in 1955/56. The cokes were phased out around 1964, in favor of the relieved diamond N frame targets, which were then replaced by the plain non-diamond N frame targets around 1966. You also could have got smooth presentation grips as an option as well as special order grips as extra cost options.

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