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Originally Posted by Avery11
Were there more registered or non-registered magnums?
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Alan answered this question in his earlier post:
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The first 5000 or so .357s made by S & W starting in 1935 were built to customer specifications . . . The factory offered the owner the option of sending in a postcard that would register the gun to the owner, and these guns were stamped "REG ####". These guns are called Registered Magnums even without the certificate.
The factory stopped the registration process but made about 2000 more identical guns (minus the REG stamping) up to the beginning of WW II; these are called the "non-registered" guns.
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Even if the certificate was never requested or issued, the guns with the registration number in the yoke area are properly called Registered Magnums. I think the official number of non-registered Magnums (no reg # in the yoke area) was only about 1,400, rather than 2,000.
So the number of Reg vs. non-reg was about 4 to 1. (But see Supica's note near the bottom of the second column on p. 134 of the SCSW.)