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If it was indeed shipped after the war, it won't answer the question of whether the pre-war assembled gun sat in inventory during the war and was shipped after the war or if the frame and other components were assembled and shipped after the war.
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DWalt
One of the clues about when it was shipped is the "s" stamped on the grip frame, as we can see on #22 in one of the pictures. A "s" had no meaning, and was not used, pre-WW2 on these guns. Its real meaning is the new hammer block, which hadn't been invented pre-WW2. It's not always present on these late shipped guns, and when present, is not always meaningful ; often the gun still has the original side plate. My money is still on an August 1946 shipping date, like 694101 and 694105.
Regarding your comment as shown above, this has always been the unanswered question. What is noticeable , when comparing pre-WW2 shipped guns vs post-WW2 guns side by side, is the difference in bluing. Post-WW2 bluing is not as deep as pre-WW2 bluing. Caleb Brown noticed this when I showed him 694101, 105, and 106 all together and in the same light; 694106 was shipped in 1940, while the other two were 1946 guns. This suggested that 101 and 105 were finished post-WW2.
Regards, Mike Priwer