Ed,

Were there original police documents that stated the serial number of the gun that killed Jesse James?
I thought for a while, like many others, that it was a Colt simply because thats what people said for years (because of that one picture of Bob Ford with the Colt).

If you haven't seen the movie "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", I believe they used the correct S&W in the scene where Ford shoots James.
If you know about the gun in the movie, do you know if it was a reproduction or the real thing? The gun in the movie appeared to be in new in the box condition.

-Erik