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When did Marca Registrada start to appear on frame?
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I think it was with the "four-line" address on the right lower revolver frame, just after WW II, but as always I am willing to be corrected .
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Does that mean that a Pre-27 could have the Spanish?
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Marcas registradas is Latin, not Spanish. It means, in effect, registered mark or trade mark.
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If I recall correctly, there are some single line address K22 guns made in 1948. My 1948 K22 has the 4 line address. That is all that I can add at the moment.
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Does that mean that a Pre-27 could have the Spanish?
I would think that almost all pre 27's made after WWll would have the 4 line address.
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Marcas registradas is Latin, not Spanish. It means, in effect, registered mark or trade mark.
It might be Latin but I think it is also Spanish
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ALL "ROMANCE LANGUAGES" SUCH AS SPANISH, ARE DERIVED FROM LATIN. IT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A LATIN TERM, WHICH WAS ADOPTED INTO THE SPANISH LANGUAGE IN IT'S ORIGINAL FORM........
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Of course there's always that "Taurus-S&W Bangor Punta" conspiracy theory
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Definitely Latin (I had 8 years of Latin & 6 years of Spanish), Latin is the language of law, and the trade mark was added for legal protection against copies (like the Spanish copies).
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I belve Gus and Woodrow had a very lengthy conversation about just this sort of thing in "Lonsome Dove".

And, I believe the were BOTH right.

That's why they we're such good conversationalists.

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I agree, it is Latin, not Spanish. I bought my Model 17 and my Model 19 brand spanky new in 1975. They both had the Markas Registradas marking on them. I have several other Smiths with it on them, but I dunno right now exactly when they were made.

I thought this had something to do with ownership of the company by some larger corporation?
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I majored in Latin in college and did some graduate work in classical linguistics, which qualified me to do nothing in adult life except (1) teach a couple of dead languages, and (2) answer questions like this.

The word "marca" is not Classical Latin. The word exists in Medieval Latin, where it is a loanword from (probably) a germanic term. The participial form "registrada" is neither classical or medieval Latin, though it has been shaped by rules of Latin word formation. The proper Latin form (if the underlying verb actually existed) would be "registrata," with a t before the final vowel.

"Marca Registrada" is the term for "Trademark" in both Spanish and Portuguese, though the spelling "registada" is also seen in Portuguese-speaking countries. S&W had experienced problems with Spanish knock-offs of their revolvers in the early 1900s; they had also fulfilled two huge contracts to provide weapons to Brazil, a Portuguese-speaking nation, in 1937 and 1946. Roy Jinks has reported that the company found it necessary following an infringement lawsuit in the 1920s to mark their exports to Spain with a Spanish-language trademark to protect their legal rights there. Before WWII, some exported guns were so marked. Shortly after WWII, with the recent 1946 Brazilian contract still visible in the rear view mirror and with the possibility of new international trade opening up in Spanish-speaking countries, president Carl Hellstrom decided to simplify export labeling by just putting the phrase on all company products. It was easier to mark all guns than to keep track of the ones going to specific countries and labeling only those. The order to make the change to the four line address block containing the phrase "marcas registradas" was issued in April of 1948.

S&W wasn't the only company to do this. Am I the only one who remembers the "marca registrada" phrase molded into Coke bottles in the 1950s? I guess there was a body of international copyright law that required imported products to carry trademark notifications in the language of the importing country.

I'm not sure why Brazilian contract guns, all shipped before 1948, don't have the phrase; perhaps the court case had no effect outside of Spain and it is only coincidence that the Spanish phrase is also used in Portuguese.
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Definitely Latin (I had 8 years of Latin & 6 years of Spanish), Latin is the language of law, and the trade mark was added for legal protection against copies (like the Spanish copies).
And I had all my life(45 years) as Spanish Speaker, and defenitly "Marcas Registadas" is in Spanish.

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Spanish is of course one of the Latin based 'romance' languages.
Once I had a Latin-Spanish relapse in a Taco place down on the South side of San Antonio. I wanted to try a variety of tacos in a place where I was the only person there who spoke English. So I just rolled the dice and fired off some numbers from the menu board.
One of my tacos was a lingua taco. That of course is a tongue taco, from the same Latin base from which we get language and similiar words.
That was my only tongue taco. Everybody should try one!
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There are taco places in south Texas that have not only tongue, but also brain and eyeball tacos. And maybe even other body parts. There's one large restaurant in Laredo that does an enormous breakfast trade in such "delicacy" tacos and Mariachis (which is the local term for a soft taco). When I lived in Laredo, I took great delight in taking visitors there. But I never ate the tacos.

I think the first 2091 "Mexican Model" .38 targets from 1945-46 were the first with the Latin (or Spanish - take your pick) markings. The 4-line stamping came later. As the intent was to export most of these revolvers to Mexico as a means of getting rid of them, that's why I think Marcas Registradas is Spanish. If you enter Marcas Registradas in Google Translate as being Spanish, it provides the English translation to be "Trademarks." I'm not sure the ancient Romans even had a word for Trademark. If there is, Google Translate does not recognize its having a Latin translation.

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I grew up speaking spanish as well, and remember the Coke bottles and other labels thusly marked. Marca registrada is indeed spanish but I'm not at all sure S and W meant it to be. Maybe they intended Latin, or figured it's close enough to latin, spanish and portuguese to work for all three. In any case I'm betting they didn't hire any linguists before they decided to include it.
I like me some tacos de lengua, y de pierna tambien. De ojos, not so much.
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Not to confuse the issue but the guns are marked "MARCAS REGISTRADAS" and this occured in 1948 replacing the famous one line guns.

I always thought that the term was Roman being used to honor an emperor of Rome, Marcas Registradas who assumed the throme after the death of Marcus Aurelius.
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If I remember correctly (and I may not), the first use of Marcas Registradas was on ".357" Magnum, Reg. Number 2517, shipped on August 9, 1937 to Roberto A. Gonzales, Mexico City. It was roll marked on the side plate. This Magnum has a 8 1/4-inch barrel and is the only one shipped with Tuskoid stocks.

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I once rolled the dice on Spanish, barbacoa sounded good. translation-In the US, barbacoa is often prepared with parts from the heads of cattle.
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From an earlier posting here by DCWilson regarding the Mexican model:

"Apart from the sights, the single most typical characteristic of the 1946 (model) is a small single line rollmark MARCA REGISTRADA that is found on the sideplate beneath the trademark."
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Now you is talking my talk! I love barbacoa. The other South Texas dish that I like you can't get here is cabrito . Baked baby goat, of course.
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Now you is talking my talk! I love barbacoa. The other South Texas dish that I like you can't get here is cabrito . Baked baby goat, of course.
And then there's Menudo (tripe stew). You couldn't get it for awhile due to "Mad Cow" prohibitions on eating tripe, but it seems to be back now. At least in South Texas and West Texas, Cabrito is usually roasted on a frame over an open fire. I've never learned to like it. Many Mexican places (the REAL Mexican places, not those frequented by Gringos) usually have Barbacoa and Menudo only on weekends. I've never learned to like those either.
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Talk about thread drift. The OP asked a question that could have been answered with a post of 4 digits and we have moved into a linguistic "chicken or egg" dialogue. I'm putting my money on David Wilson.

David, I have jealously acknowledged that you are a statistical "nerd" so I shouldn't be surprised that you are also an erudite etymologist. My Latin consisted of three years of Caesar's Gallic Wars in high school and a graduate level course in Medical Greek and Latin in college. (That last one has been surprisingly helpful throughout my career.) Regrettably, my formal Spanish education only consists of living in Texas for the better part of a century. No matter the original derivation, the meaning of the marking is one of those things that is intuitively known.


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Now you is talking my talk! I love barbacoa. The other South Texas dish that I like you can't get here is cabrito . Baked baby goat, of course.
You can get it at my house. I marinate for a few days in olive oil, lemon, garlic and red chile flakes, then spit roast real slow till the meat is falling off the bone. Tortillas for making tacos, cold beer, you're all set.
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And then there's Menudo (tripe stew). You couldn't get it for awhile due to "Mad Cow" prohibitions on eating tripe, but it seems to be back now. At least in South Texas and West Texas, Cabrito is usually roasted on a frame over an open fire. I've never learned to like it. Many Mexican places (the REAL Mexican places, not those frequented by Gringos) usually have Barbacoa and Menudo only on weekends. I've never learned to like those either.
Love menudo. Best thing ever for "crudo" - hangover, and puts chicken soup to shame for a cold or the flu. Traditionally the broth should be made from beef feet. The meat under the hoof is the softest and most tender part of the animal. But what a stench while it's simmering all day.
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Back in post# 14, David Wilson mentions the post WWII Brazilian guns that don't have the "Marcas Registradas" stamp. Those guns were built on left over WWI frames that were probably already stamped with period markings, which did not include the trade mark info.
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If I remember correctly (and I may not), the first use of Marcas Registradas was on ".357" Magnum, Reg. Number 2517, shipped on August 9, 1937 to Roberto A. Gonzales, Mexico City. It was roll marked on the side plate. This Magnum has a 8 1/4-inch barrel and is the only one shipped with Tuskoid stocks.



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I realize that I am raising the dead here, but my gun shipped in September, 1936 and has the "Marca Registrada" on the right hand side below the trademark.
Sorry for the terrible photos, but I won't have it in hand until Friday.

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....my gun shipped in September, 1936 and has the "Marca Registrada" on the right hand side below the trademark.
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This seems to be a non-standard stamping, maybe necessary due to export of the gun to Mexico?

PS: To answer my own question, after digging through all the extraneous stuff above () and looking around a bit further, it does appear that your gun and the one mentioned by Bill are the only pre-war examples with the line on the side, and both went to Mexico, so the connection there seems compelling.

I don’t do RM’s. How about higher-numbered guns? Do they or do they not have the Spanish line?

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I used to know a guy that always used the word "Tripe" when he meant "B.S." I like me some Menudo, as long as somebodies Mama made it.
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The K-22 went to four lines sometime in 1948; around s/n K30,xxx
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Interesting that the order references only those two specific countries. So someone from Argentina or Colombia could get one without? Or were those two the countries from where S&W distributed to all Latin American locations?
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It might be Latin but I think it is also Spanish
Since Spanish is a Romance language that developed FROM Latin.....

Marca Registrada stands for Registered Mark as in Trademark, same as that little postscript "R" you see next to corporate logos.
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Marcas registradas is Latin, not Spanish. It means, in effect, registered mark or trade mark.
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Here's the side plate of my 3rd Model .44 in the 54000's that was shipped to Mexico and was later imported back to the U.S. - as is indicated by the importer's marking below the 'MADE IN USA' rollmark.

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I know it seems like everything has gone over to the speaking and writing in spanish but S&W never has .
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Ahem ... but then you should be aware that Latin did not form the plural of feminine nouns with an added s, but Spanish does.

And since the Marca Registrada on the 1930s RM became Marcas Registradas on the four-line post-war, there can be little doubt it’s Spanish, not Latin

And to add insult to injury, etymological sources attribute a Germanic, not Latin root to Marca as mark or brand.
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I thought I knew the answer to the question, then I thought I didn't know. Now I think I thought I ... oh shoot.

One thing I know for sure is reading the cuisine portion of this thread has made me sick to my stomach!
To quote Chichikov (from Gogol's Dead Souls)
"I will not eat abominations!"

Or at least that's to the best of my memory what he said. And no, I didn't read it in Russian although I imagine someone here did!
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My sole contribution to this high level discourse is this:

A friend once wrote to Smith and Wesson for a sight screw. He addressed the envelope:

Marcas Registradas
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Springfield, Mass

It must have gotten there, because they sent him the screw.
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A friend once wrote to Smith and Wesson for a sight screw. He addressed the envelope:

Marcas Registradas
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Springfield, Mass

It must have gotten there, because they sent him the screw.

Marcas was still working in the Parts Dept. back then. He has since been deported.
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Does that mean all registered magnums with Marcas stamped on them are really undocumented magnums? Confused
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