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A historical letter will tell you the shipping date and the configuration that the gun shipped but not the value. The factory stopped doing the letters and they are now done by the S&W Historical Foundation. Even finding out how to order a historical letter on the S&W website takes a bit of digging after looking at their site map.
The cost is $75 and collectors appreciate those guns more that have a letter included that verify the original shipped configuration.
I don't collect this model but I don't believe they are very valuable unless in pristine condition and in their original box. Those is lesser condition and without original box will only bring a couple of hundred dollars on the market.
If the stocks are original then that might give it a bump in price as they are more rare and collectors seem to like them.
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James Redfield
LM #497
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