First, welcome to the Forum.
Second, as far as the history of your revolver goes, just about anything's possible as to who it shipped to and for what reason. There may be some old archives in some county or state records about your great-great-uncle. You just never know.
If I were really serious about documenting your revolver, and that revolver were mine, I'd spend the fifty bucks for a letter on it...it'll be thoroughly researched in the S&W records by Roy Jinks. And hey, it's only fifty bucks. A week or so after you send the check off, you won't even miss the money.
Thanks for showing us the photo...I'm sure everyone would like to see more and in greater detail. You can upload five photos as attachments per post, and even more photos if you use an image hosting site like Photobucket or something. That's site's free up to a certain number of photos.
If you want to post its serial number, there'll be a bunch of people right now who can give you more details about the gun.
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Originally Posted by Otter3
It's been handled quite a lot over the years by various family and friends, and would probably benefit from a clean.
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Undoubtedly so. It would also probably benefit from not letting a bunch of folks play with it and handle it. If you own the gun now, I'd think about maybe restricting access to it. But that's just me.
Good luck.