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New to me "M&P" - some questions -
Hi everyone!
Just got a lovely older S & W 'M&P' in .38 Special.
I notice it does not have the 'Made in USA' Stamp lower right on Frame, but the serial Number seems a little nigh for this to be missing.
Serial Number 403161.
Roughly what year would this have been made?
MOP Stocks of course are old after-market ones.
No Stamps of any kind on the Grip Frame underneath the Stocks.
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Sorry my images are a little washed out, overcast and windy here today, and the outdoor Light is a little wan.
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The Made in U.S.A. stamp was added in approximately May, 1922. Your serial number indicates a revolver made (and probably shipped) before that time. Nothing unusual here. Nice revolver!
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11-08-2020, 02:46 PM
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But pretty close to that stamp starting 
Since you wanted a “rough year”, late 1921 is about as rough as you can get it. Production hit 400,000 sometime around then, an easy benchmark to remember.
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Love the grips.
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Xs 2 on the grips. they look more like imitation ivory than MOP?? but i like em too. kenny 
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403750 shipped on 6/9/22. It could have been manufactured several months prior to that. The MADE IN USA stamp started in the high SN 405xxx range.
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11-08-2020, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by krsmith58
Xs 2 on the grips. they look more like imitation ivory than MOP?? but i like em too. kenny |
It's the wan Light outside here today, and hard enough to photograph even on a good day! Lol...otherwise they are typical enough old MOP color wise...if maybe a little on the white side, but there is some Opalescence -
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But pretty close to that stamp starting
Since you wanted a “rough year”, late 1921 is about as rough as you can get it. Production hit 400,000 sometime around then, an easy benchmark to remember. |
Ahhhh!
Thank you Absalom!
I kind of got it on impulse seeing as how it seemed to be in such nice condition, and has that BLACK as a Raven's claw 'Blue' they were doing for a while...and it just seemed like such a sweetie.
Somehow I thought the Serial Number range for the inception of the 'Made in USA' was a ways lower.
Good to know the "400" rule of thumb...I will remember it..!
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