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Old 07-19-2017, 09:04 PM
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Bill,

Thank you (and thank you Roy). The April 1915 ship date for 5642 gives us one more data point.

The dilemma: What we still don't know is which category 455 #5624 is from?

A Category 1. "44 1st Model TL" in the 44 serial range converted to 455 at the factory per Neil & Jinks identifies the 146 commercials from this category by serial #s and they shipped Oct I, 1914 and Jan I 1918. 5624 is not one of those numbers.

A category 2. "455 1st model TL" in the British serial # range 1 to #5461 [H of S&W pg. 201] made 1914-15 does not include 5624 which is too high for that range.

A category 3.A. "455 2nd model" in the range of 5624 is not a TL, unless one TL slipped thru with 2nd Model serial #. These shipped 1915 to 1917.

A category 3.B. 691 TLs only known to be assembled from April to Oct of 1916 in the 12 - 14,XXX serial range, and way too high for 5624. 345 sold commercially.

So once again we look to category 0. "Rare misc. early commercial production 44 TL 1st Models chambered in .455."
Including a pre Brit Contract special order TL subset of 25 standard .44 1st Model TLs in the .44 serial # range chambered in .455 with 5” barrels, shipped Nov. 1, 1912. Thx to Jim Fisher for bringing these to our attention and sharing documentation! See #5751 below.
A Scarce 5 Inch Triple lock shipped to Canada in April of 1915
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