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Model 57 Odd finish - What did I buy?
I just picked this up locally. Pinned, recessed, stamped mod 57 in the yoke. It appears to have some sort of stainless finish. The guy selling it advertised as a stainless gun, but I was pretty sure no 57's were ever made in stainless, so I hoofed it on over, took a look and decided to buy it.
It may be a nickle gun that was buffed with a scotch bright pad or something similar.
Serial number N774XXX
Is that a mis-struck "N" on the grip frame?
What say you?
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05-21-2017, 05:06 PM
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Looks like some type of hard chrome. Possibly Metalife offered by Mag-Na-Port Arms. A very nice 41 Magnum that will provide many years of great shooting.
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05-21-2017, 05:09 PM
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I agree with Doc. Who ever done it, did a great job.
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05-21-2017, 05:11 PM
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Looks to be a refinished gun, based on the rollmarks.
I would also guess hard chrome.
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05-21-2017, 05:13 PM
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Model 57
Agree with above post, hard chrome. Nice hand gun, Model 57 no-dash you can't go wrong.
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That doesn't look like nickel to me. I am not that familiar with nickel to really say though. It does look like stainless but the 4th edition says nothing about made in stainless. Blued and nickel only.
I am wondering could the gun have been a blued gun that someone stripped the bluing off? I stripped a Colt Police Special bluing off and buffed it with fine grit paper and the gun looked like stainless. I even thought about clear coating it but did a cold blue instead.
I sure wish I hadn't deleted the pics I took of the gun when it was buffed out steel only.
From 4th edition your gun was made in 1980. serial n700000started 1980. N800000 ran 1980 to 83.
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05-21-2017, 05:20 PM
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I was thinking hard chrome also, but if it is, it's a very good job. Smith and Wesson never did anything like this from the factory, did they?
At 600 dollars, I don't think I got hurt too bad.
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05-21-2017, 05:24 PM
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If it's hard chromed, and it probably is, it has one of the most durable finishes available. In some ways more durable than stainless.
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05-21-2017, 05:39 PM
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Anyone have an approximate year date?
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05-21-2017, 05:45 PM
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SCSW says 1980.
I agree it is some form of hard chrome plating. Armoloy was popular at the time, but there were others, Metalife and Metaloy are the trade names I recall.
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That's a nice looking Mod 57. Ya did good!
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Looks to me like a satin chrome finish. It looks great.
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There were no stainless model 57s, but if the trigger on this one matches the rest of the metal work (and if the hammer were similarly finished) it would be a dead ringer for the model 657.
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There were no stainless model 57s, but if the trigger on this one matches the rest of the metal work (and if the hammer were similarly finished) it would be a dead ringer for the model 657.
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My son has a 629 of similar vintage. They look like the same gun when laid side by side. It's really uncanny how much this looks like a stainless gun. When I first picked it up, I kept looking at the the model number to see if there was a faint or mis-struck 6 in front of that 57.
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Shouldn't it be stamped with either an "N" or a "B" on the grip frame?
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Those industrial hard chrome finish's wear like iron. You didn't get hurt on it.
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Originally Posted by Leslie Sapp
Shouldn't it be stamped with either an "N" or a "B" on the grip frame?
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No.Only a N if it started life as a nickel gun.
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Nickle 57 would look like this:
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I love the way hard chrome looks.
So much so that some day I am going to get a 1911 Frame dome in hard chrome and keep the slide blued.
Your 57 looks terrific done up in Hard Chrome.
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