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Originally Posted by doggone1954
it dose say 38 s & w special ctg and it does have the lanyard hanger stap hook attachment also and under barrel on the swing out arm for cylinder arm there is the number 8 under that 29198 also like I said light engraving not stamped is us+ab-16528 that b might be a 8 ....
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So DWalt’s diagnosis appears to be correct. The gun shipped on a DSC or Maritime Commission contract.
The number on the “swing out arm” (the yoke) is a factory assembly number that is meaningless to us.
The letters and numbers you describe as engraved on the frame below the cylinder in your original post were likely applied by the end user who received the gun in 1942, maybe a property or inventory number.