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Originally Posted by smithman 10
Here's my 39 shipped in 1959 (lettered from S&W). It has the long tang but according to the serial number was made before yours.
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S&W had a tendency to make a large lot of a model then pull them from the vault as they were sold back then. That is what makes collecting these older S&W 39's interesting to me there are a lot of variations on models during transitions and when there were shipped out is often anyones guess, unless you get it lettered. Another example is when S&W changed the location of the slide serrations on the Mod 39 no dash forward of the safety body to match the location on the Mod 52. I have narrowed down a SN range (a perk to SWCA membership is a lot of help on research you can't get on the from the public side of the forum, you should check it out), but in that range, it is anybodys guess as to which one will have the slide serration where. Isn't collecting S&W semi-autos fun?