bruce5781

That was a very cool find. Congratulations!

What would be most interesting to me is whether the other nine units shipped to Warshal were also prewar guns. Since at least 100 round butt 2" revolvers with serial numbers in the S833xxx range were shipping at about the same time as yours (I show some that left the factory in August, 1946) one wonders if the 10 that went to Seattle were a mixture of prewar and early postwar guns, at least by serial number. If all 10 were prewar guns with lower serial numbers and lacked the sliding hammer block safety, that would be an interesting historical anomaly to know about. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Fascinating!

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Jack
SWCA #2475, SWHF #318