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Help with grips on an old 5 screw
These pictured below look like the S&W Medallions are brass!
Is this a real S&W made grip?
Thanks!
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07-13-2017, 04:53 PM
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That looks like an old M&P .38 Special. The serial number could put it in the 1910 to 1920 range, which the stocks look correct for. They were gold plated brass at that time. You might find the serial number written in pencil inside the right panel. You may have to examine it carefully in good light to see it. That gun looks to be in nice condition for the price on the tag.
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YES! Very much so and appear correct for that M&P from my serial number memory recollection. They used these grips from approx. 1910-1920.
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332199 indicates probable early 1920 shipment, and those grips are probably correct for M&Ps from that time (used 1911-20). I believe the medallions were gold-plated brass, the so-called "Deep Dish" style. I'd think $400 would be an OK price for that one.
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I agree with the previously posted comments about the gun.
It may be a niggling point, but I believe the correct terminology for those 1911-1919 medallions is brass with a gold wash. Technically, I don't think they were actually "plated." The wash was quite thin and is often found completely worn off. That is why you usually find them exhibiting vertigris.
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If you're buying a gun that old to use, bear in mind that it probably doesn't have a heat-treated cylinder. Avoid Plus P ammo.
If made at the end of the time those grips were still used, it MAY have been one of the early ones to get the cylinder treatment for added strength.
It may have been made in 1920-21 and they found a barrel of those grips and used them a bit after they were discontinued.
Someone post the serial number of the first heat-treated cylinders.
Those brass medallions were routine on all British service S&W .455's, the Triple Lock, etc., not just on .38 M&P guns.
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The elusive Model 43444 LOL 
Looks like a good buy to me, really.
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Someone post the serial number of the first heat-treated cylinders.
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316648, produced in September, 1919.
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