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Originally Posted by sodacan
I have a 4-screw stamped model 10 from around 1960. Five inch barrel, numbered diamond magnas. Like the OP's but in much better condition. You don't see many four screw, model stamped, no dash examples. Of the 500 or so model 10's currently on gunbroker, I don't recall seeing any of them. IMO, $249 was a real buy. Enjoy it.
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I don't know whether you noticed, but you revived a Zombie thread from 8 years ago.
By the way, screws really don't matter much in case of the M&P's. The upper sideplate screw went away around 1955, since then all pre-Model and Model 10's no-dash were four-screw.
Assuming model stamping started in the mid-430 range, I have a record of a Model 10 no-dash from mid-1960 in the 491 zip code. By that time the 10-1 with the HB was being made simultaneously, but there was still likely a total of several ten thousand like yours made. A lot went to police departments, so while not rare in the collectors' sense, it isn't too surprising many didn't survive until today.