Things are getting congested here with several others jumping into the thread with different questions about different guns. Separate postings would be better to prevent confusion.
"The SN is 967110, no letter."
The shipping date on that one would likely be April or May of 1942, making it a very late pre-Victory model revolver. The fact that the caliber marking is .38 S&W indicates that it was made for use by the British Commonwealth military. Many of these .38 S&Ws were "Converted" after WWII to fire .38 S&W Special ammunition by boring the chambers more deeply, to facilitate civilian sale in the 1950s and 1960s. The serial numbers on these pre-Victories went up to 1000000 in early 1942, at which point serial numbering re-started at V(Victory)1. Most, if not all, of the pre-Victories had shipped from the S&W factory by mid-1942.
Last edited by DWalt; 02-10-2013 at 11:04 AM.
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