I just got this one today. Early K200 that didn't go to the British.

"United States Property" on the topstrap, .38 Smith & Wesson (not Special), 5" barrel, no V prefix on serial number, lanyard ring, 9681xx serial number, I know the grips are wrong, I'm working on that.

Quick question.

Does anyone know whether this serial number range would have the earlier checkered grips or the later smooth grips?

Thanks.

Yours would have shipped prob Mar/Apr 42. Guessing the smooth walnut grips without medallion.

My s/n 975939 shipped 4/42.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Mike,

Cool, thanks for the quick reply.

David

Why do you think it didn't go to the UK?

Shipped around the spring of '42 and has the property stamp. Those would be consistent with a Lend Lease gun.

I don't know it went to England or another Commonwealth country, I'm just wondering why you are so certain it didn't.

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Jack
SWCA #2475, SWHF #318

Same question as Jack.

It was manufactured around March/April 1942, when all British Service models went to Lend-lease, and it has the appropriate property stamp. It is not showing post-war British commercial proofs, but that just means it made its way back here by ways other than an official surplus dealer.

We don‘t use the K-200 designation, btw. It‘s not clear that historically anyone ever did. And personally, I‘d get some acetone and remove that hideous white from the stampings; it‘s guaranteed not historic

Nice lookin revolver thanks for posting . Although the white out makes the markings easier to see I would loose it also on such a nice looking revolver historic revolver makes you wish it could talk .

9678xx shipped in 4/42. At that time, S&W was using the brush blued finish, possibly the sand blast blue (the changeover took place about that time). Yours does not look like that from the picture, but maybe it is. The correct grips would be smooth wood.