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Originally Posted by yaoverstand
Hi all, this is my first post here. I was given an old K22 that belonged to my grandfather. I'm trying to date it and was hoping you guys could help me.
Serial: K 468XX (on bottom of grips)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1jo9wdfzjz...2018.34.15.jpg
^^^this is a picture of the firearm. Thanks in advance to all the nice people here! |
Welcome to the forum. That serial number points to 1948 manufacture, probably in the second half if we assume S&W produced and numbered their frames sequentially. (They didn't always do that.)
By the way, the stocks on your gun are prewar service stocks from the early to mid 1930s. Your gun almost certainly shipped with postwar magna stocks, which are the type that rise up over the sideplate on the right and the frame on the left.