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Old 03-07-2017, 11:19 AM
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I'm new to the forum, so first of all thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer. On Saturday I'll be picking up my S&W .38 hammerless lemon squeezer. I have the serial number and was trying to determine some history of the piece. Once I have it in my possession I can post some photos which would probably be more helpful than just the SN. I believe this model was produced between 1898 and 1907 with the SN of 152944. Of course that's just my guess from what I have been able to find online. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Welcome to the forum. Others may disagree but you should send for a history letter. And, please don't call it a lemon squeezer, it's a Safety Hammerless.
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Welcome to the Forum, As Don says, any history will be found in the factory historical letter which will tell you when, where and to whom the gun was shipped and it's original configuration. The serial number does place it as a .38 Safety hammerless , 4th model. It was probably made around 1902-3 era. There's a link on this Forum for the application form to order a historical letter. Cost is $75. Ed.
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I'll refrain from calling it a lemon squeezer. Thank you for the response
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Thank you for the rely I was just looking at the form you mentioned, sounds like my best option to get accurate information.
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Welcome to the forum Heck Cutter.

Terms like lemon squeezer and ladysmith are collector terms and never used by the company. There are also several terms that S&W used in their early literature and no one really knows why. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that it was to differentiate themselves from their largest competitor in CT.

Crane is yoke
Checkering is checking
Grips are stocks

Once the company left family control, some of these industry terms crept in and you will see checkering and grips used by the company today. They have also recycled the collectors term Ladysmith and called one of the Model 36's the Lady Smith. They have recently come out with a .22 called the Victory model which for years was a post WWII .38 special commemorating victory in WWII and even had the unique "V" prefix in the serial number.

Unfortunately, nothing is sacred anymore but the few purist collectors still attempt to keep these original S&W terms alive.
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Well Roy calls it a lemon squeezer in his Jinks and Neal book, so I will accept that as a legitimate name for a Safety Hammerless/New Departure.
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