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Originally Posted by cmansguns
I'm maybe wrong on this, but I think that late a serial number should also have the S stamp on the sideplate for the hammer block added after the Navy incident of accidental discharge.
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No, it isn't late enough - V491xxx. The Victory with the sliding hammer block safety wasn't shipped until January, 1945. Conventional wisdom says the numbers were in the SV769xxx range. But the lowest number found so far is SV732261, which might have been assembled after the first bunch. It shipped on June 29, 1945, to the Navy.
There were some early examples that went back to S&W to have the change made, but those have unknown serial numbers.