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.22 lr identification
Hello, I recently inherited what I believe to be a model 17. I'd like to confirm that as well as get an idea for when it may have been manufactured. The S/N is K25027. Please see the attached photos. Thanks!!!
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Welcome to the Forum.
You have a K22 made before model numbers were assigned in 1957. Yours dates to the late 1940s, just after the end of WW II.
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Probably shipped in 1948. Its proper name is K-22 Masterpiece.
The closest serial number in my list of known ship dates is K24316. That one is a K-38 Masterpiece and it shipped in May, 1948.
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Very nice!...K782 shipped March 1947 and K18061 shipped April 1948...Are those sharp-shouldered Magnas I see in the pictures?...  ...Ben
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very nice.
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Are those sharp-shouldered Magnas I see in the pictures?
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Yes. And they are probably original.
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That is a wonderful inheritance. A beautiful revolver to remember them by and many hours of shooting enjoyment with that one, for sure.
Wish the pictures were larger.
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This is great, thank you for all the good information!!!
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01-22-2022, 04:31 PM
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The pictures are small but it appears to me that you also have what collectors have dubbed a 'one liner'. On the right side of the frame between the cylinder and trigger guard is stamped 'Made in USA'. They changed that to a four line address stamp shortly after your K22 was made.
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Prob May or Jun 1948.
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