Thread: Updated: Model 3 DA, Factory Modified in '49, The SWHF is awesome!
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Old 10-21-2018, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by glowe View Post
. . . and here I always thought that the factory stamped "B" in a diamond as shown on the butt-frame when they refinished a gun???
Yes, it's one way they marked them, but not the only way. Over the decades S&W used various ways to mark refinish at the factory. The diamond B and Star are a couple. They also used a rectangle with codes inside it. My New Model #3 was factory refinished in 1978. The rectangle stamped under the grips was "R-N 78" for Refinished Nickel 1978.
I'm not positive, but I think the Diamond B was for blued guns. Not sure if nickeled got the B, or maybe an N?
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