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02-23-2017, 12:17 PM
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model 14?
looking for date and positive ID on a revolver. I think it is a Model 14. Marks on yoke are: L
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Serial number K 1500xx
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02-23-2017, 12:25 PM
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Not a M14
What you have is a Combat Masterpiece revolver, if chambered in 38 Special, it would later become the Model 15 (after the 1957/58 timeframe), yours is much earlier. Regardless of the time-frame, the name Combat Masterpiece is still appropriate since the name was not dropped when the model number designation was added.
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02-23-2017, 01:23 PM
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Welcome to the FORUM! It should be 1 heck of a shooter! I have a 67 no dash (stainless version of 15) Hard to beat them. Enjoy your Smith! Bob
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02-23-2017, 01:34 PM
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model 14
it is .38 cal. does anyone know about how old it is. I inherited it from my father. He carried it as a police officer.
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02-23-2017, 01:47 PM
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He always told me the police Department aquired the guns from the civil defense or home defense units from WW 2.
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K150xxx dates to 1952. So it is a .38 Combat Masterpiece and, as shown in your photo, it is the 5 screw variety which we would expect from that year. As a point of reference, one of my Combat Masterpiece revolvers shipped in October, 1952, and bears serial number K157144.
The marks in the yoke area are completely insignificant. The L is simply a fitter's mark and the five digits are a parts tracking number used during the soft-fitting process.
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02-23-2017, 01:56 PM
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Thank you for the information.
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He always told me the police Department aquired the guns from the civil defense or home defense units from WW 2.
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Well, what he "always told" you was incorrect. Your revolver is a postwar creation that was assembled approximately 7 years after the war ended. His department may well have acquired some surplus WWII revolvers (likely Victory Models) but this wasn't one of them.
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02-23-2017, 02:00 PM
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That doesn't suprise me. I know how stories go.
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