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I just picked up a pre-10. I am a bit confused, can you help.
5 inch barrel, 5 screw, 38 spl. Serial: S 992876.

My problem is that I identify this as a post WW11 gun, but there is a 1 line address "made in USA", top of barrel has patent info - didn't they discontinue in the 30's? All serial numbers match - under barrel, cylinder and butt. All factory tracking numbers match (on yoke, inside side plate)

Is this one of those post war guns with leftover bin parts?

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Condition notes: This is not a museum piece, good wear, someone etched a number on left side, some holster wear, backstrap lost its blue, top of front site lowered with a file. It is tight, looks like someone replaced some internal parts. It is tight and functional. Have not fired it yet.

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...one line address was applied until 1948...
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S 992876 would PROBABLY be a very early pre-Model 10. It likely shipped around June or July 1948. That's about the time the changeover to the 4-line address was made, but I don't know exactly when or at what SN that happened for the M&Ps. A picture would help, as I suspect it has the newer "high speed" hammer.
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Sounds like a perfectly good post-war M&P from early 1948. Everything you describe sounds correct.

DWalt typed at the same time. There are C-prefix guns from later in 1948 still with the one-line; I don't know whether any S-prefix guns already got the four-line.

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SN C858x which shipped in 7/48 has one line, so the changeover to the 4-line address occurred after that. I have listed two lower C-series SNs which are also one-liners. But that doesn't necessarily mean that there could be no S-series M&Ps with the 4-line address.

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My S976xxx shipped March 1, 1948.

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Targets Guy, that is definitely the younger brother of mine, mine has been rode harder, but not by much and is an inch longer in the barrel. Does yours also gave the barrel top patent info?

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I just picked up a pre-10

5 inch barrel, 5 screw, 38 spl. Serial: S 992876

I am a bit confused, can you help
Most of those I've identified in that serial range went out the door in June, July and August, 1948. All of them had the new "High Speed" hammer. However, 25 units with 6" barrels in the S992xxx range left the factory in a single shipment on May 19, 1948.

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Is this one of those post war guns with leftover bin parts?
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Does yours also gave the barrel top patent info?
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I have recorded data on nearly 750 examples of the S prefix M&P revolvers. With one exception, all of them have the patent dates if the barrel is longer than 2". The sole exception was a 6" revolver which had had the barrel replaced with a barrel from the mid-1950s. In other words, the evidence shows that all S prefix examples had the patent dates, except for the snubbies.
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