Thread: Early Model 51/J Frame Info Wanted
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Old 12-23-2010, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by greystonedog View Post
I have had several early ones, pre M serial number. Book says the first was 52,637 May of 1960. Does yours say M51 inside behind the yoke? All M51's were J frame. If the SN dates to 1954 ( below 20,000) it should be the mod I frame and most likely a 4 screw sideplate. And the 1954 gun would have the barrel and cylinder serial number marked. You may have a 1954 gun that was rebarrelled to 22 mag
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It's a model marked J frame. It has a SN that in the J frame series would have come before 1960. It appears that it was just an older frame that was used on a Model 51.

I'm away from my SCSW, but wouldn't 52,637 have been earlier than 1960 had it been on a M34 instead of M51?

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