I do apologize for the super poor pic. It was sent to me from a buddies phone. I'll be picking it up on Friday. Don't have the serial number yet. I can't make out the vintage of the Magna's. Any grip experts care to guess. It's killing me to wait but I'm out of town until Friday morning.

They look to be early post war magnas used until around 1953.

Bill

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Yep, they are the early 'high horn' type. The later ones are more contoured at the top. Your new pre-Model 10 is a short action, five screw so it was made after about 1947-48. It looks to have the 4-line address/patent info on the right side (as oposed to the earlier one-line 'Made in USA'). I can't remember right now what year that began. It was right around 1950.
Chris

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SWCA #2243 SWHF #292

Early high horns, look right to me.

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Dick

what's at least as interesting is that he was doing 75mph at the time.

He's a decent kid but not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

If you look closely, you can see that his left pinky finger is not visible, and is presumably being used to help grip the wheel, which is really stabilized mostly by his legs. Anyway, it's not like he's driving 85 or more.

Just be careful when he says, "Hold my beer and watch this."

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He had the car in AUTO .

OK the story is that this belonged to an LEO from Selma AL. This is where my parents were born and raised so that increased my interest a bit. I hope to get some research done. If it didn't have some storage rust pitting not bad or too deep it would be a 95%+ gun. Bought it for 200.00 and it came with an old Brauer Bro's holster. I do hope to get some better pics one day. The camera is a 2 mega pixel Kodak easy share that's like 8 years old and I have zero skills with it.

Those could be the original grips. Pull them off, and see if they have the serial number
stamped in them.

The grips have the sharp corner on the edge of the shoulder, which may be a few years earlier
than this gun. If they are numbered to the gun, they are right. Otherwise, they may or may not
be right. Check the serial number first.

Later, Mike Priwer

I should have posted about the grips. The first thing I did was pull them and they do number to the gun.

Cool old M&P - here's it's Cousin C176xxx with (numbered to gun) high horns also.

Thanks VM! I've been meaning to ring you up and chat. I have miss placed your phone #, guess it did not migrate to my new phone. If you don't mind email it to me. Also missed you at the show last week end. B. said you were there and I looked around a bit but had to work the RCC at noon, didn't have much time.