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Old 02-12-2018, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by mmaher94087 View Post
It is my understanding that S&W did not have in-house plating facilities at the time these revolvers were manufactured in the1870's. The plating was done by a subcontractor such as King. As such, S&W did not have complete control of the plating process and that is the reason there are plating anomalies. Some of these are plating of triggers, trigger guards and hammers, etc.

That makes perfect sense as most of the nickel American and 1st Russians I have seen have plated latches and triggers.

Its when you get to the later nickel DA models and NM #3 it seems like the latches are consistently blued and triggers are cased.
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