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Originally Posted by cmansguns
...I'm always learning something on this Forum so my question: Is there some collector significance to the roll mark on pre-27's?
Mine definitely didn't ship till post War, however who knows when the frame was stamped, or the barrel roll marked? Could these (and other parts) maybe have been laying around the factory while WWII interrupted all commercial production...
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Cmansguns:
No real significance with the location of the barrel roll marks, but they were pretty standardized by the early/mid 1950s by barrel length. The most likely answer to why your roll marks were so close to the frame, is that whomever was working the roll mark machine had just roll marked a bunch of 3.5” barrels and forgot to reset the machine for the next batch of barrels that happened to be 6.5”. Regardless of the why, it is a great gun and the roll mark position makes it a little bit unique.
Thanks for sharing the additional photos,