One last try.
I have 1903 and 1912 catalogs that show pearl stocks and all images show medallions. Pics below.
Frankly, I cannot find any mention of pearl stocks made by S&W in the early 1920s in catalogs. Even the price lists associated with 1920s S&Ws do not list pearl stocks as an option. The 1923 catalog states the 32 Safety with hard rubber stocks only and the 38 Safety with checked walnut only. By 1925, pearl stocks were listed as optional for the 32 & 38 Safety revolver.
I have 1931 and 1936 catalogs and price lists showing pearl stock options for 32 & 38 Safety revolvers @ $4.95 per pair. I have also seen a few lettered medallion pearl stocked guns made in the 1930s.
It has been said that non-factory pearls were always thinner than factory pearls and that factory pearl stocks were the same thickness as factory hard rubber stocks. In the 38 S&W Safety, that would mean that factory pearl stocks would have to be around .370" thick, same as hard rubber. Have several sets of non-medallion pearls I have taken off 38 DAs & Safety revolvers over the years that measure .30" I also have a set of non-medallion pearls that letter to a gun from the early 1890s and they measure .360". The medallion was not introduced until the 1893 World Exposition in Chicago, so all pearls from an earlier time did not have a medallion, but were thick, not thin.
__________________
Gary
SWCA 2515
|