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Age and value 38 Lemon Sweezer
Serial # 247255 in decent shape only fired once will post pics if need be. Thanks in Advance
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Spell quick Sqeezer. Sorry
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Serial # 247255 in decent shape only fired once will post pics if need be. Thanks in Advance
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Photos needed to help with value.
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Okay, let's try a third time: Squeezer. 
Or you can just call it by its real name, a Safety Hammerless. We like that better anyways. The serial puts your gun in the late 19-teens or early 1920s, I believe. Someone else may have closer data.
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Welcome to the Forum. A 38 Safety, 5th Model with that serial number would have shipped later than 1922 and might have a MADE IN USA on the left side of the frame. Let us know what you see. That serial number is very late in the production of the 38 Safety, which ended at 261,493. They were actually sold up to the beginning of WWII.
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What's a Lemon Squeezer? I have old Smith & Wesson catalogs and I can't find a single Lemon Squeezer. Maybe this question should be asked on a food forum.
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What's a Lemon Squeezer? I have old Smith & Wesson catalogs and I can't find a single Lemon Squeezer. Maybe this question should be asked on a food forum.
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Looking at pictures of both from the same catalog (Montgomery Ward 1895), one does wonder who thought of that "nickname". The resemblance is, shall we say, barely discernible?
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Maybe someone needs to get the Wikipedia entry on S&W Safety Hammerless revolvers changes??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_...ety_Hammerless
I believe this is the original Lemon Squeezer.
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Maybe someone needs to get the Wikipedia entry on S&W Safety Hammerless revolvers changed??
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Aha. Blaming the nickname on "collectors" is a nice touch. It would explain why so many folks new to the forum use it; they are under the impression that's the term the cool people prefer .
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Then there are the older folks.. When I was growing up, my Grandfather, a Station Master and Telegrapher for the Santa Fe Railroad in Lincoln, Nebraska, was very proud that he owned his home, a new 1953 Chevrolet and had a "Smith & Western Lemon Squeezer" to protect his family from the Tramps that would knock on the backdoor wanting handouts. I never corrected him; I was told it was rude to correct one's elders. Sadly, my Grandmother sold the "Lemon Squeezer" when he died.
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