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Originally Posted by jcelect
Here's two more 1953 Kit Guns. These are both model 34 marked and the 2" was shipped in Apr of 1959.
An interesting side note. As noted by fungunnin, all the "flat latch" guns are round butt guns. He stated he has a square butt gun, where's the pics?
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An extremely nice pair jcelet. Just to be clear, what fungunnin actually said is: "It seems like most of the early guns were RB. Is this true?"
"Early guns" do not really equate to "flat latches" which were made all the way up to 1966.
It's true, the early gun RBs (Model of 1953 Kit Guns 1953 to c. 1958) outnumber square butt guns, but they are not all RB. Sq butt flat latch guns became more prevalent on the J frame 22/32s between c. 1961 and 1966.
In my post #4 on the 1st page of this thread you will see my SB Model of 1953 'I' frame, 2nd gun down on the left. Yes, it has target stocks but it's original grips are to the right of it. And no it doesn't have the flatlatch on it in the photo; I had changed it to a pre war "double hour glass" thumbpiece at the time of the photo. But any familiar with Mod 1953 kit guns will recognize it is an I frame which all came with flat latches, either style #2 or #3.
Hope this helps,