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Originally Posted by Duigiud
What do you mean by “pre models”?
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New to this game are you?
That's fine. We all were at some point!
In the summer of 1957, S&W management decided that all the company's handguns would get model numbers. Prior to that time, they only had model
names. Beginning at various points in the year 1958, dealers started receiving S&W pistols and revolvers that bore model numbers on them; in the yoke cut on revolvers and on the left side of the frame on pistols.
A few examples:
The .38 Military & Police became the Model 10 .38 Military & Police.
The K-38 Masterpiece became the Model 14 K-38 Masterpiece.
The .357 Magnum became the Model 27 .357 Magnum.
The .44 Magnum became the Model 29 .44 Magnum.
Etc., etc., etc.