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Help Identify This Revolver
The ONLY markings on it say:
Latest Model Smith and Wesson
This is on the top of the barrel. There is no serial number he can find anywhere. It appears to be a 5 shot .32 caliber.
A friend of mine whose family used to rehab houses found guns in the walls of a house they were working on. He has now inherited them and asked me to assist him in identifying them.This is one that has me stumped.
Anybody have any ideas?
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Welcome! I have no idea what company made it but definitely not S & W. Many other firms would stamp a reference to the cartridge chambering to make buyers believe it was a real S & W and I would guess this was the intent on this one.
Does the cylinder come out with removing the center pin, and you push out the empty casings with the pin?
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07-23-2017, 10:56 PM
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Most likely a European made gun. Definitely not a Smith and Wesson made gun.
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I was wondering that very thing since there is no serial number or model number anywhere he could find.
I love Smiths, but the really antique stuff is not my forte.
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07-23-2017, 11:05 PM
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Does the cylinder come out with removing the center pin, and you push out the empty casings with the pin?
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Not sure, but I shall ask him. He's in another state so I haven't handled it.
Edited: Yes, the center pin does come out and the cylinder comes out once the pin is out
He also has a nice Smith and Wesson Number 2 that is in fairly decent shape for its age (considering it was stuck in a wall space for decades) and locks up pretty tightly.
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That model 2 is in pretty amazing shape aside from the cylinder, doesn't appear to be refinished.
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That sure looks like a kit gun from back in the early 1960s from Dixie Gunworks in TN. Saw them as a kid at various shows. Pre 1968.
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That "Model 2" is really a Model 1 1/2 first issue.
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That "Model 2" is really a Model 1 1/2 first issue.
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Damn I just looked at more pics. You are correct. My first thought was a Model 2 Army. But those have a different grip shape and look to all have longer barrels.
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I have seen the Latest Model NON Smith & Wesson somewhere but cannot now track it down. I looked in Zhuk and Flayderman, but it is surely a foreign knockoff, S&W would have come down hard on anybody using their name that way.
It is a solid frame pull pin suicide special with the round bolsters on the frame to look like a top break's hinge.
I think it is broken, surely the sharp triangular bit is not meant to hang down in front of the spur trigger.
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Jim, when I looked at it, it reminded me of a old timey can opener. 
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Are we talking about a Mod-2 or the can opener?
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The first gun reminds me of a starter pistol. 
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I have seen the Latest Model NON Smith & Wesson somewhere but cannot now track it down. I looked in Zhuk and Flayderman, but it is surely a foreign knockoff, S&W would have come down hard on anybody using their name that way.
It is a solid frame pull pin suicide special with the round bolsters on the frame to look like a top break's hinge.
I think it is broken, surely the sharp triangular bit is not meant to hang down in front of the spur trigger.
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Yes that piece is actually connected to the spring and I believe is the cylinder stop. The cylinder spins freely on it.
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That "Model 2" is really a Model 1 1/2 first issue.
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The serial number on the Model 1 1/2 is under 1500. I wonder about when it was made. I advised my buddy to contact Smith and Wesson and see what they can tell him.
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