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.32 HE, 2nd change
These pesky .32's drop on and cling to me like ticks!!
This one has been sitting silent on the shelf in one of my LGS for months. We agreed on a wonderful low cash price of $____ today. I have confirmed that this is a .32 HE 2nd change c.1906-09. A quick test-fire confirmed nirvana! I have also confirmed that these gorgeous grips are indeed MoP. Happy to have added this old classic!
Credit to Elgin for the 1921 GW Wheeler cameo!
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Nice grips! Yes a letter would confirm it. But, in that era Smith & Wesson put medallions on their pearls to differentiate them from aftermarket. My guess would be those are aftermarket. But someone like glowe will come along and confirm my suspicions... Or not. 
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Thanks Guy. There is a thread somewhere on our forum that indicates that before 1910 SW did not consistently if at all use medallions.
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One of the experts is going to have to tap in on this. My recollection is S&W began around 1900 putting medallions on their Pearl stocks and stopped making them around 1911 or so because they couldn't get decent mother of pearl. But I'm an old dude and maybe my recollection isn't as good as it used to be.
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Thanks Guy! I’m an old dude too, so we might as well hop in the raft with Bob Ross together!
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• The recessed gold plated over brass S&W medallion pearl stocks became standard after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago where S&W had a very large display of their revolvers. Before that, pearl stocks did not have medallions.
Walnut Target extended two screw stocks, introduced beginning with the Model 1891 single shot, and in 1904 on the .32 Model 1903-1st Change along with standard size Walnut stocks, which were optional plain and checkered, with ‘dished’ stock circle; gold medallions beginning only after 1910. Round butt pearl and ivory stocks, not walnut, had small round recessed gold plated over brass S&W medallions, which distinguish them from non-factory stocks from 1893 until after WW II when medallions were deleted from premium stocks.
Gustave Young is the S&W engraver that designed the S&W monogram logo that we all know and love today.
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....and there you have it!
Thanks Jim!
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Changing to this to a: "Another .32 comes home", thread. 
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