I got the impression from reading this that they had not yet seen the gun in hand when the catalog went to print. There are interesting similarities and differences with the write-up in the 1930 S%W catalog as shown on 1Aspenhill's web site. I wonder when the 38/44 would have been developed had W&K not committed to order thousands of the "Reinforced" (3rd Model) 44s introduced in 1926 but first shipped in '27.
