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Old 07-10-2017, 06:57 PM
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Just bought an old S&W snub nose from a guy at work.
2" barrel 38. Model # on yoke says 30773 with an H and a 3 SN# is C122XXX. What year is it and what's the value? All I could find on similar guns online was early 40's. Any help would be appreciated.

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Just bought an old S&W snub nose from a guy at work.
2" barrel 38. SN# is C122XXX. What year is it and what's the value? All I could find on similar guns online was early 40's. Any help would be appreciated.
Welcome to the forum!

I would assume that it looks something like this?



If so, it is what is known as a "38 Military and Police Revolver" (a.k.a a pre-Model 10). It fires .38 S&W Special ammo and is built on the S&W K-Frame. With that serial number it was probably shipped from the factory in 1949 or 1950. They are great guns and the short barrel length ones are popular among collectors right now, even though they made a ton of them!

Value is significantly impacted by originality, condition and configuration (e.g. correct grips/stocks, round butt vs square butt, with round butt ones being less common than the above square butt one). Post a few photos and some of the experts here will be able to give you some more information and will probably be able to narrow down the shipping date range...

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Condition has a huge impact on value. Quality pictures are a necessity for any kind of an intelligent guess on value. Part of the reason for this is one person's idea of good condition may actually be poor or excellent. What information you have provided might put it in the range of $200 to $600. Welcome!

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Condition has a huge impact on value. Quality pictures are a necessity for any kind of an intelligent guess on value. Part of he reason for this is one person's idea of good condition may actually be poor or excellent. What information you have provided might put it in the range of $200 to $600.
Be worth quite a bit more if it looked like the pic in post #2.
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Welcome to the forum. Lots of helpful people here, and once you post some pictures I an sure lots of knowledge will flow.
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By the way that is not a model number under the yoke, it is an assembly number used at the factory to keep certain hand fitted parts together like the barrel,frame, and cylinder while they were getting blued or what not. These numbers have no meaning once the gun leaves the factory.

S&W did not use model numbers when your M&P was produced., which by the way is built on a k frame iffin you want to replace the grips you will need to know that.
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Thanks for the info. RKmesa that's spot on. It's in pretty good shape. A bit of holster wear but everything is original. Looks like it was carried daily. I'll post a pic whenI figure out how. Been awhile since I joined a forum.
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Welcome to the forum.

Nice find.

When you say everything is original, I presume you've confirmed the serial # matches in all six locations including the back side of the right stock.

And the assembly # matches in all three locations.
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I'll check tonight.
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It's probably an M&P snubby. SN C122xxx would date its original shipment to around mid-1950. M&P snubbies will always demand somewhat of a premium over other M&Ps having longer barrels. Yours falls into a category called by collectors the "pre-Model 10" (1948-58). In fairly good and all-original condition, it would be an easy sell in the $450-$500 price range. Postwar M&P snubbies in the earlier S-series will be valued a little higher than your C-series pre-Model 10. Pre-WWII M&P snubbies are priced out of sight as there were very few of them made.

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