I think the photo of the V is someone else's gun not the OP. The OP said he could not make out the mark on his cylinder, said it looks like a 5 or S.
I wasn't going to say anything because he seems to get upset with giving opinions that he don't like but the gun does not look like stainless to me. Don't know how to explain it just don't have the same look. I guess it could be the photos.