Help With These S & W Handcuffes

OldYooper · #1 04-24-2021, 05:54 PM

Need to know the Model Number.
Date Made if possible.
Money Value.
I want to sell them, Made and offer.

dltvette · #2 04-24-2021, 07:47 PM

Smith & Wesson Model 100 Version 2 Patent Pending, manufactured in Springfield, Mass before moving their handcuff manufacturing to Houlton, Maine in 1979.
Dave

fdover · #3 02-10-2022, 08:47 PM

I'll offer $50
Fred #2968

The Mighty S&W · #4 02-11-2022, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by fdover

I'll offer $50
Fred #2968

Is there much of a market for the handcuffs? I’m a fairly new collector of Smith & Wesson and retired from law enforcement a couple of years ago. I’ve probably got a dozen or more pairs of old S&W handcuffs with the model 100’s like the ones the OP posted being the most common in both the standard finish and in black. I’ve also got some older Smiths (unsure of the model number) that came with a shinier finish, and were designed like the Peerless handcuffs with a small push pin for a double lock mechanism on the side of the cuff body rather than the more common to S&W sliding bar on the face of the cuff.

I had no idea people were into collecting these things. I’ve personally never paid more than around $25.00 brand new for a pair of Smith & Wesson handcuffs. Is there anything in particular to look for which would make a pair like the OP has valuable? I only as because the agency I retired from to this day has a big steel locker in the armory with literally hundreds of pairs just like that along with shackles and belly chains. I would have never given it a second thought regarding value.

Club Gun Fan · #5 02-13-2022, 11:49 AM

At the Kansas City SWCA Annual meeting there was a make shift jail filled with S&W Handcuffs. Dave Teeters is the proud owner of that display, so asking if there is a market for handcuffs, he has that market cornered!

The Mighty S&W · #6 02-13-2022, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Club Gun Fan

At the Kansas City SWCA Annual meeting there was a make shift jail filled with S&W Handcuffs. Dave Teeters is the proud owner of that display, so asking if there is a market for handcuffs, he has that market cornered!

Well, seeing as how I am in Kansas City... I suppose it wouldn’t be worth my effort to try to compete. Hahaha! I just never really thought about the handcuffs as being a collectible. To me, they were things that I accumulated over the course of a bunch of years. I had a couple of pairs that stayed on my duty belt for those couple of times per year that I wore a uniform. I kept a pair in my desk drawer for those days when I’d get to work and realize that I had forgotten my cuffs. I kept a pair in the center console of each of my personal vehicles for those days when I’d get called out for work but was away from home, and didn’t need the rest of my kit. I kept two extra sets in my work car. I kept a couple of sets in a “go-bag”. I carried a black set during the years I spent working narcotics in street clothes, and had a very nice set of bright shiny nickel ones for my shirt and tie days that didn’t require a jacket. Then, I had a pair that were my go-to “lucky” cuffs. I even had a couple of sets in a drawer at home and I’m not really sure why they were there.

Basically, I accumulated them over the years. I had them figured to be worth about the $20.00 or so dollars per pair that was paid for them.

AJ · #7 02-13-2022, 04:26 PM

I have a pair of S&W handcuffs that I collected when I was assigned to Naval Station Long Beach. They were marked "Mar.Bks Post#1". Felt I should have them on my gear. Still have them somewhere. Would not sell them.

Imissedagain · #8 02-13-2022, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by AJ

I have a pair of S&W handcuffs that I collected when I was assigned to Naval Station Long Beach. They were marked "Mar.Bks Post#1". Felt I should have them on my gear. Still have them somewhere. Would not sell them.

WOW, that's an eye opener.
Hard to believe that the Shore Patrol would ever have the need to cuff a Sailor....
And that they would need a Marine's assistance.

AJ · #9 02-13-2022, 05:28 PM

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WOW, that's an eye opener.
Hard to believe that the Shore Patrol would ever have the need to cuff a Sailor.

When I was on USS Saratoga, I saw quite a few "clamshelled".

Eric300 · #10 02-13-2022, 06:05 PM

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Hard to believe that the Shore Patrol would ever have the need to cuff a Sailor....

You've never seen the movie 'The Last Detail' with Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, and Otis Young?

max503 · #11 02-13-2022, 06:15 PM

I've got a pair that say M-103 on them. But I have no key. Are keys available?

AJ · #12 02-13-2022, 06:31 PM

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I've got a pair that say M-103 on them. But I have no key. Are keys available?

Would think it is just a standard cuff key.

Baxter6551 · #13 02-13-2022, 07:04 PM

They are a standard handcuff key. Check Galls.com for keys.

Scharfschuetzer · #14 02-13-2022, 10:29 PM

I still have two sets of S&W cuffs from my LE career. I don't know why I never got rid of them. Lots of bad guys can get them open with bobby pins.

JM4151 · #15 02-14-2022, 01:05 AM

I think that the only handcuffs that have any real value are the aluminum ones. I don't think that S & W makes them any longer and they are bringing a couple hundred if you have any to sell. When an Officer made rank in the PD that was one of the go to gifts that we w used to buy them, a pair of LW cuffs.

dltvette · #16 02-14-2022, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by JM4151

I think that the only handcuffs that have any real value are the aluminum ones. I don't think that S & W makes them any longer and they are bringing a couple hundred if you have any to sell. When an Officer made rank in the PD that was one of the go to gifts that we w used to buy them, a pair of LW cuffs.

JM4151,
The aluminum S&W Models 925 & 926 are collectibles, but are not the only ones. The Light-Weight Aluminum Airweight M-925 & 926 were introduced in 1958.
The M-925 Airweight Nickel finish are harder to find than the M-926 Airweight Polished. The M-925 was discontinued by 1968 while the M-926 was manufactured until S&W stated manufacturing the 100 series in 1979.
Dave

dltvette · #17 02-14-2022, 03:15 PM

Regarding collectible S&W handcuffs, the M-200 & 210 are in my opinion the hardest to find.
The M-200 & 210 were the first hinged handcuff manufactured by S&W. The hinge only folded in one direction and was defective in the event that a subject, if strong enough, could snap the cuffs in half.
The M-200 & 210 were introduced in 1990 (the first product brochure I have listing them is May 1990). Sometime between Feb. 1991 and May 1991 they had been discontinued.
These hinged handcuffs were replaced by the M-300 that was introduced in mid 1991.
Dave

dltvette · #18 02-14-2022, 03:42 PM

Another S&W collectible handcuffs are the Model 94 Maximum Security Handcuffs introduced in 1969. There was 9 different double tumbler lock keyed combinations. There were 3 different versions of the M-94.
The “N” key or blank key are the most common variation to find.
The H, L, D, G, E, R, S & M variations are the more uncommon keyed combinations to acquire.
Dave

dltvette · #19 02-14-2022, 04:07 PM

As Don mentioned above, in 2013 in K.C. Mo. at the S&WCA symposium, I displayed my S&W handcuff collection in a "jail cell" I made using a 100 year old exterior county jail door.
Dave

dltvette · #20 02-14-2022, 04:35 PM

This past Sept. - Oct. 2021 at the S&WCA symposium in Tulsa, OK. for our 50th / 51st Anniversary, my display was titled Smith & Wesson Handcuff History. This display covered the history of S&W manufacturing handcuffs for the Peerless Handcuff Company beginning in 1914 through November of 1940. Then S&W logo handcuffs manufactured from 1952 through present day. The display was 12 (6 foot x 30 inch) tables, total of 72 feet in length. The display included handcuffs & restraints, contracts between S&W and Peerless, patents, advertisements, product brochures, handcuff cases and S&W handcuff printing blocks used in advertisements & product brochures. I believe there was 150+ handcuffs in the display.
I have been working on a new eBook that will cover the contents of this display that I hope to finish sometime this year.
Dave

The Mighty S&W · #21 02-14-2022, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by dltvette

This past Sept. - Oct. 2021 at the S&WCA symposium in Tulsa, OK. for our 50th / 51st Anniversary, my display was titled Smith & Wesson Handcuff History. This display covered the history of S&W manufacturing handcuffs for the Peerless Handcuff Company beginning in 1914 through November of 1940. Then S&W logo handcuffs manufactured from 1952 through present day. The display was 12 (6 foot x 30 inch) tables, total of 72 feet in length. The display included handcuffs & restraints, contracts between S&W and Peerless, patents, advertisements, product brochures, handcuff cases and S&W handcuff printing blocks used in advertisements & product brochures. I believe there was 150+ handcuffs in the display.
I have been working on a new eBook that will cover the contents of this display that I hope to finish sometime this year.
Dave

Very interesting stuff. I honestly hadn’t a clue that anyone collected the handcuffs. I suppose when you work around something everyday for so many years, it just becomes so commonplace to you that you simply don’t give it a second thought. With that in mind, perhaps a young me should have taken a job tending bar in a brothel. Hehehehe!

Fantastic looking collection. I will be learning more about these things as a result of this thread.