So, I picked up a used 669 at a show last weekend. It came with aftermarket grips but the box (without label) contained all the right documents, original grips, second magazine and a sealed cleaning kit. The seller said the label must have fallen off but I’m now suspecting otherwise. There were two pieces of VOC paper, one clearly newer than the other.

So, my question is whether Smith ever included the cleaning kit with 2nd generation pistols. The more I think about it, the more I’ve convinced myself somebody threw together a box and tools to fool somebody just like me.

What say U? (Sorry for the upside down photos...thanks iPad)

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I don't know if they did or not , but she's still a nice looking M669 . I would have bought it and I have 2 of them and 2 M469s . If you're happy , that's all that counts !

Jeppo,

A close friend (now deceased) bought a new 659 in late 1987.

His came with a tool kit that looked much like yours.

However, with S&W: "Never say never."

John

I recently received a nib 669 from Jdowd. It came with the little round s&w factory stickers on the pistol, paperwork, tools and correctly numbered tag on the box end. I don’t know how old it is, but I am always amazed to find folks who can buy a new gun, yet never shoot it for decades. Lucky Me

Many times at work, I take in guns on trade that have never been fired. Those who are familiar with the Glock know they come from the factory with gold “jiz” inside the slide. After a few outings, the “jiz” is gone. Many get traded in with the “jiz” still there just like a new gun. GARY. .

Greetings Jeppo,

I've three Model 669s, two NIB, one being the first production-run M669 (pictured) (if ever there was a reason not to discharge a firearm methinks this would rank), and one bearing TAE0080 (roughly, give or take, plus or minus, the 80th M669).



All three have a four-pack of accessories: the ever-important and appropriately sized cleaning rod (~5.125 in.; 134mm), mop, copper brush, screwdriver (that ONLY for the life of me would I employ, especially on a new pistol); and, the orange-ish fire-solution suppression device (an accessory that only a few others, thank goodness, have claimed is for hearing protection)(Yes, really). And a bunch of little pieces of paper whose primary goal seems to be selling more S&W stuff.

Unfortunately, Jeppo, the exterior of your box was unseen in your images. Nevertheless, YOU can see it. By the time the M669 went into production former owner Bangor Punta had been absorbed by Lear Sigler, the latter thus displacing the former on the box's exterior. Therefore, your box exterior should reference the high-flying Lear Sigler where one would formerly find Bang-The-Drum . . . er, oops, sorry . . . Bangor Punta.

One last "box" point: the S&W product label on my very first M669 is hanging onto the box by the hair of its chinny, chin, chin. Thus, I can easily see the label on your box as having fallen, unknown in place and time, from the box to which it'd once been affixed.

Ah, the M669 . . . Highly concealable in many areas of the human body, its 13 rounds (12+1) ready at the call.

The M669 followed one of the hottest Smith & Wessons, the Model 469 (of which nearly 100,000 were produced, so great the demand), which was likewise retired when the M669 came on the scene, itself being replaced (after roughly 56,000 units were produced) by the Model 6906 (add a zero; move the first six to just behind the zero and, viola, a four-digit "new" firearm).

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Later.

As far as I know, Every S&W gun, semi auto or revolver came with "tools".

Reading this old Post I must confirm that I purchased a 669 New & it came with the same cleaning kit you have pictured regards Mike

My first 469, which I bought new when they first came out (IIRC in about 1983ish) had the kit. About 2000, I bought a used, but in the box 669, and it had the cleaning kit.