And once gain thank you to Chip also. I have bought the book .
My final effort to receive information from the person I bought the gun from came up with a Zero. I had offered him financial compensation for anything I could use. His reply was that he purchased the gun from an elderly person at a gun show. All information regarding its origins as a bring back item taken from a Japanese soldier at Okinawa was he said "verbal".

Since it was antique and was a cash transaction, he did not take the sellers information. An ignorant choice on his part in my opinion, but now information lost from history and remains only as a undocumented story. Not sure how long the S&W History letter will take, but will certainly share its information when it arrives.


Keith