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457 or 457s?
What do I have here? It has a stainless slide and a satin alloy frame but the model number stamped on the frame says 457 -- not 457s. Were there some early ones made like that? Thanks!
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03-31-2020, 11:48 AM
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Thats a 457 stainless. I don't recall them marking the frame "457S". Just the label on the box.
Nice pistol! Regards 18DAI
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Thank you!
I thought all the stainless in this model were 457s. Any extra value here? Thanks again!
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My BDKXXXX is marked 457S on the frame. That's a 2006 production gun according to the factory, so maybe they did it later on.
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Thats a 457 stainless. I don't recall them marking the frame "457S". Just the label on the box.
Nice pistol! Regards 18DAI
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I can't make out the serial number on the frame, but maybe that would give a clue about what you have. I kinda wondered if maybe yours had started out life as one of the two-tone Zander guns, which would have had 457 stamped on the frame, and later got a new top end.
More likely, though, is the prosaic explanation that S&W didn't stamp the "S" on 'em when yours was produced.
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My Model 457 .45acp is two tone: stainless frame and blued slide.
Stamped "MOD 457"Serial # VZD76xx
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Originally Posted by jimmyj
My Model 457 .45acp is two tone: stainless frame and blued slide.
Stamped "MOD 457"Serial # VZD76xx
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Jimmy, you got me curious enough to copy and zoom in on the picture of the OP's gun. It, too, has a VJD prefix, with his being in the 4xxx series.
So maybe this frame was originally part of a two-tone model after all. Maybe the slide is even original too. How would someone have gotten the black finish off, though, without disturbing the laser markings?
Ideas, anyone?
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