Here are pics of the different rear sight styles.
The first pic is the U.S. military contract style frame.
The second pic is of the later era commercial models not built on WWI era frames.
Another thing of note.......the "S" inpsection stamp, such as the one on your barrel, had stopped being used in the earlier period of S&W M1917 production. Thus your example had it's barrel built and inspected in the WWI era and laid around unserialized for a number of years until built into a commercial model at a later time.
Was there an "S" stamp on the rear face of the cylinder as well?
We really need more pics. If your frame truly is a WWI era U.S. contract frame, with proper inspection markings, the would be somewhat of an unusual item having the later era commercial rear sight style (added).
I'd love to see all of it's inspector stamps, whether they be an early production "S" or later production eagle head/S-number style.
Last edited by tenntex32; 10-13-2020 at 05:40 PM.
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