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Early post war Terrier/ LETTER IN LAST POST
I found this 38/32 S&W 38 Terrier 55106 at the Las Vegas Antique arms show Friday and I also found a set of post was I frame service grips. I have asked for a ship date and I will post
when I get it. serial number 55601.
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Very nice! I finally lucked into a 1950s Terrier a few months ago and I carry it quite a bit.
Congrats!
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Just a wee gun indeed laddy!
Nice find! I hope she shoots well for you.
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Great find. Mine is 55661 and shipped in Sept 50. Picked it up off this forum a couple of yrs ago courtesy jsfricks!
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Sweet! I looked long and hard for a post-War real I-frame like yours, but finally had to settle for a pre-War version. They were and are S&W's smallest 38 ever and the flat spring action just feels right (to me at least.) Congratulations. Those extra stock panels are a nice find in and of themselves. 
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I list 5 Terriers having relatively nearby SNs, all of which shipped in the Sept to Nov 1950 period.
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I bought a early with leaf spring Terrier last year from a Dealer here in Las Vegas that thought he had a Chief's Special and finally figured out it would not chamber 38 special. It lettered with service grips and it took a long time and many phones to get a set. As happy as I am with the gun I think finding the grips were the find of the show for me.
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The grips that are on the gun are post-war. The grips you show that are off the gun are pre-war. Nice snag!
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Are you using the cut at he bottom of grip to make determination or the checkering ?
Please help me see what you are seeing that leads you to that determination
The grips on the gun are not numbered
Thanks
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The sharper corners of the checkering border is the main clue.
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DWALT :
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thanks I will swap grips
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Yes DWalt has it. Pre-war grips have sharp corners on the gutter around the checkering. Post-war grips are rounded.
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I got more time this afternoon and looked at grips on the gun and they do number to it. The other set has a number, hard to read but appears to be in 53000 serial number range, late pre war production?
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The sharper corners of the checkering border is the main clue.
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I got more time this afternoon and looked at grips on the gun and they do number to it. The other set has a number, hard to read but appears to be in 53000 serial number range, late pre war production?
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Precisely, pre war production, notice the pre war flat silver medallions.
The medallions in the grips on the gun are post war nickeled medallions.
I have several examples in my data base, of post war I frames with pre war 'sharp cornered' service grips and flat silver medallions.
I also have post war I frames with pre war 'sharp cornered' service grips but nickeled post war medallions!
The first with Mini Magnas is # 62XXX. Except in the 56847 range on Terrier with Magnas, for the New York City P.D., September 1950.
Count the lines of checkering in a half inch X 2.
Pre war checkering of 16 cut lines per inch (15 rows of diamonds) replaced post war with 13 LPI (12 rows of diamonds) and round cornered checkering borders.
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Jim:
The bottom gun was 1 of 100 shipped to NYPD September 20,1950 and has magna grips.
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The PD contracts seem to have gotten the "new" stuff while the old Service round top grips were used up on the civilian market.
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S&W historian advised 55601 shipped July 1950.
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The bottom gun was 1 of 100 shipped to NYPD September 20,1950 and has magna grips.
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Here's one of mine....
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I mistyped the ship date after spending a full day walking Shot Show should be 1950 not 1970.
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Received letter and copy of factory invoice ,15 guns shipped to Thomson and Diggs CO. for Sacramento, CA. P.D. July 8,1950.
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