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Originally Posted by Masterpiece
Driftwood,
Thought this may be of interest...There's a "Very" high probability your newly acquired NM#3 will letter as being shipped to Takata & Co. Yokohama, Japan on Oct.28th,1896...This was a very large shipment containing 1955 of these Revolvers!!
By the way...Congrats on your New Acquisition...Very Nice Looking NM#3...Don't see many having a Blued Finish in that high of condition!!
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To be exact (or almost exact)---which I don't often get a chance to do (especially about what happened in 1896), "Smith & Wesson only produced 3,463 units of this model in 1896 of which just over 3,000 units were supplied to the Japanese Government." So----if yours didn't go to Japan (likely didn't), you have one of less than 463 of these "units" sold/delivered in America----or somewhere other than Japan--and so do I.
Mine is #30261. It's pictured in N&J (Revised) on page 190. (It's a lousy picture, but a neat gun.)
Ralph Tremaine
And it too shipped in October---the 18th.