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Letter carved inside grip
I own a S&W .38 M&P manufactured in 1904-05 that has an upside down letter F engraved on the inside of left rubber grip. Is this a significant code or just someones initial. Please advise. Thanks.
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Probably something that was added by a previous owner. Does the right side panel have the gun's serial number on the inside?
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I had a Model of 1905 that had "F.L. Jobes Christmas 1924" penciled on the inside of one of the grips. I called S&W to find out how old it was and they said judging from the s/n it left the factory in about 1919-1920.
Marking the inside of the grips may have been a popular way to mark your possessions back then to establish ownership in case it is stolen and recovered.
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That definitely looks ”home-made”, and it appears whoever did this started scratching something else next to it, but didn’t finish.
PS: Or maybe it is complete and it’s a cattle brand or some other identifying symbol 
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Not unusual at all to find stuff there. I have several revolvers of different makes with former owners' names written inside the grip panels. Have also seen that on the inner sides of rifle and shotgun buttplates. I have a Swiss K31 carbine that had a piece of paper between the buttplate and the stock with a soldiers name, serial number(?), and his military group written on it. I left it in place.
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[QUOTE=wheelgun610;139841614]Probably something that was added by a previous owner. Does the right side panel have the gun's serial number on the inside?
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Not only is the F upside down, it's backwards.
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No. Just the initial.
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It's a cattle brand: for the "Broken Tine Pitchfork" ranch.
Well...my best guess anyway. Sorry, couldn't resist. But I've seen screwier brands.
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It]s a cattle brand: for the "Broken Tine Pitchfork" ranch.
Well...my best guess anyway. Sorry, couldn't resist. But I've seen screwier brands.
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Nice try. I thought it was the "Dead Giraffe" brand.
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Nice try. I thought it was the "Dead Giraffe" brand.
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LOL. How'd you get a dead giraffe from that?
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LOL. How'd you get a dead giraffe from that?
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Well, I didn't really think it through, but I envisioned a long neck perpendicular to the body (rigor mortis?), giraffe lying on its back with hind legs and fore legs lying flat.
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Long neck, lying on its back with feet in the air. Yep definitely dead giraffe killed by the broken tine pitchfork.
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