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S&W Hand Ejectors: 1896 to 1961 All 5-Screw & Vintage 4-Screw SWING-OUT Cylinder REVOLVERS, and the 35 Autos and 32 Autos


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Looks like a 38 Military & Police Model of 1905 Third Change manufacturer date 1909. . .early for a third change. As rough as it may look, it's not that bad. All the early ones 1899-1915 seem to have gotten really used hard.
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That revolver is either a 2nd or 3rd Change. There was some overlap of these two models. In this era, your revolver would have been called a Model 1902 according to the catalogs. The square butt examples were called 1905 and the round butt guns were labeled Model 1902.

If the stocks are numbered to the gun, they were the standard walnut checkered service stocks with convex round tops, used from 1910 to 1920. That style might have started in late 1909, but most likely in 1910. A factory letter is the only sure way to obtain the exact shipping date.

I had a brain malfunction and moved that convex date up 10 years - guess that I should not answer posts after 9:00pm. Everyone below is correct that the medallion stocks appeared during the teens and the convex was introduced around 1920.
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"convex round tops, used from 1910 to 1920"

Convex round tops were used in the 20s. Deep-dish gold medallions were used in the 1911-20 period. Earlier ones had concave tops. Many of the M1902s (rounded butt) had black hard rubber stocks. This one may have also.

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Sorry. The convex (non-medallion) service stocks didn't start shipping until about 1920. From about 1911 to 1919, they had the recessed gold medallions. Before 1911, the stock circle was flat or concave and had no medallions.
Marcelo's do appear to be convex, so they are later than the gun. But the pics may be fooling me.
Here's a pic of the stocks that shipped from 1911-1919:


And here is the pre-1911 style (except these are square butt stocks):


Finally, the style from 1920 until about 1929 or 1930:
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OK - I will no longer answer posts after 9:00pm, as that appears to be the time by brain stops working. I have been replying to stock dating for a long time and have many dated examples of all K frame stock styles, so no idea why I forgot the medallion teens.
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