Hello im looking for some information on this revolver. There is no serial number. It has ivory grips. I dont know much about it at all.

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That looks like a K22 Outdoorsman

No serial number?

Are you certain?

Look again. On that vintage revolver the serial number should be on the bottom of the revolvers grip frame, barrel flat under the ejuction rod and rear face of the cylinder.

The serial number should be in the 632,000-682,000 range

Welcome to the forum.

If you don't find it in any of those 3 locations, I don't know how it was removed because the nickel finish looks original. And it's a special order factory finish on that model.

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Jim
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Yes, a K-22 Outdoorsman, also known as the K-22 first model, which was produced from 1931 through 1939. From features, we can deduce yours was produced in 1937 or later. The serial number, when you locate it, should be toward the high end of the number sequence mentioned in post no. 2.

About 20,000 units of this model were produced, and they are highly sought by collectors. The commercial appeal of this new model helped keep S&W afloat during the Great Depression, a time when sales of some of their previously popular models collapsed by nearly two-thirds. They are still among the best .22 target revolvers ever produced by an American firearms company.

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David Wilson

No serial number? That's a very bad thing. Makes the gun contraband in the eyes of the law as it is most likely stolen property. Cops will confiscate it and destroy it.

Hopefully you're just looking in the wrong place for the serial.

Very valuable revolver if original. If refinished in nickel then much less so.

Anyone notice how often these "ID my 22 revolver" posts involve a pre-war OD? Apparently most of these are owned by folks who don't recognize them.

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My wifes grandfather is a big time collector. It was given to her along with a few other wheel guns. Found the serial number 672836 somehow I missed it under the barrel lol.

The only one that matters from a legal standpoint is the one on the gun butt.

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Jim
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Should also be on the butt. If it's not on the frame it's still a problem.

You don't see it here...?

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672836 would date its shipment to about early 1939. It's likely a K-22 first model, called the Outdoorsman. However, if it does not have a SN stamped on the butt, you indeed have a contraband revolver and it has no value whatsoever, except possibly as parts, as it is illegal. There is no easy way to make it legal. Unfortunate, as it would otherwise be a desirable item.

why does the gun need to have serial numbers in multiple places?

It doesn't. By law it has only has to have one, and that must be on the frame. There's no point to having it on a part that can be removed.

Just like a car. It must have a registration # attached to the frame, not the steering wheel, the trunk lid, the front seat, etc.

If it's not on the butt, sometimes it can be found under the grips on the side of the grip frame.

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Jim
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About the same time model numbering started in the late 1950s, S&W stopped the practice of multiple serial number locations. But the one on the butt (at least for S&W revolvers) is the only one which is legal.

After 1959 the serial # in the yoke cut of the frame is also legal.

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