Any Triple Lock at $650 sounds like a deal to me. I'd have taken both.

A high condition narrow rib K-38 with a four digit serial number (plus the K, of course) for $850? Go into debt to get that one. The Heavy Barrel K-38 at the same price sounds a little steep to me.

Service stocks had big medallions in the 'teens. The number you found would be for an early .38 M&P when stocks did not yet have medallions. I bet the wood came from a .32-20; in that series, that serial number would have gone out the door about 1912-13.

By the way, that's a good looking .38/200.

Edited to add: I don't want to sound presumptious. I should have said, "I would go into debt to get that one." That's only a few bucks more than what I paid for a similar high-condition narrow-rib K-38 from May 1948 that I picked up a few months back. I'm still trying to work up a good estimate of how many narrow-rib K-38s there are, but it doesn't seem like there could be that many.

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