Several months ago I posted a request for info on this gun and got many replies and much advice. Thank you all. I finally got around to requesting a letter from S&W, and Mr. Jinks was more than helpful. The gun was shipped to Los Angeles with four others like it in May of 1958. As some of you guessed, the unrelieved rosewood grips now on it were installed sometime after it was shipped from the factory.
Recent activity suggests that this is a pretty desirable revolver to somebody out there- particularly with these stocks- and now is the perfect time to find it a new home. I have no box and no paper other than the S&W letter I just received.
I purchased it from a gentleman in Texas for, as I said in my first post, a song. He said it was handed down to him from his father and neither gentleman had fired it. I have not fired it and it looks to me to be unfired since it left the factory.
The grips now on the gun will stay with it. That's how I got it and I have no reason to separate them unless it becomes a price issue. I believe the stocks to be five to six hundred by themselves. $2500 OBO
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