Do you enjoy those words or numbers you have to type in on some websites to prove you're not a robot? Then you might like trying your eyes at this.

Pre-war small service stocks off a 1941 pre-Victory BSR. Correct, but non-matching. The gun is 767114, which this is obviously not.

My eyes aren't the youngest. I'm certain the first and also the fifth digits are a 7. The others are shape-shifting the longer I look at them.

I'll go with the majority consensus. Thanks!

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78357?On that last one
Looked again it's a 2

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Paul
S&WCA #2726

That's what I see, except for the second digit, which I thought was a 9.

783572 ??? must have been a happy assembler celebrating VE day or there about, when he stamped those numbers. The 5 and the 3 are difficult to distinguish. Next re the 4 and the 7. Doesn't matter. A victory with a different grip serial number is no biggie.

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ANTIQUESMITHS
LM1300 SWHF425

I've found the best way to interpret hard to read digits is by comparing them to digits that can be read.

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Jim
S&WCA #819

I am seeing 793572

Charlie

I think your right Charlie

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Paul
S&WCA #2726

My initial thought was 783578 but it COULD be a 2.

Try dipping your finger in some water and wiping it across the numbers. Sometimes by highlighting the area and then using a glass the numbers will be more apparent.

If you click on the photo it will enlarge and then click again and it will enlarge one more time.

Keeping stocks and iron together on S&W's seems to be the exception rather than the rule. This is especially true on guns that saw military or law enforcement service. Armorers were apparently less concerned with collectability than they were with proper function.

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James Redfield
LM #497

Yes, I believe Charlie's got it.

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Bob

783572 is what I see,

Same for me.

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John