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Can anyone tell me or verify the approximate
Date of Manufacture of a MP w/SN 680403??
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Assuming you didn’t leave off a prefix, likely 1939. If it’s a commercial version, dates can be off as not many shipped at the time compared to official contracts.
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Close serial numbers were all shipped in first 6 mos. of 1940. Ed.
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683702 shipped in 7/40
677111 shipped in 6/39
670846 shipped in 6/38
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Hey, I have # 683938, shipped 7-17-1940. Went to the Sacramento PD. Shipment of just one revolver. Big Larry
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I have s/n 675669. It shipped in 3/39. Shoots like a dream.



My first six shoots ever with this revolver.

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680403 probably shipped around early 1940. On my list I show none with a SN quite that high shipping in 1939.
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