Tom,

Thank you.

I look forward to lighter photos once you receive it but it does appear to be unmarked with neither military nor civilian import marks.

At this point I have to conclude it's a category 2. Your #5755 (the highest # known of the 67 duplicates) is one of some of this cat. 2 model sold commercially all in the 5502 - 5857 range, but including a few military issues in that range as well.


All of the 666 TLs from Category 1 were shipped to England as military contract guns. The remainder of the original total of 812 factory converted to .455 were shipped commercially and have known serial #s.


How yours got to Canada is likely similar to the story of #5788 - NO CAL ROLLMARK, 6 1/2”, 1 of 5 in a Com’l shipment June 4, 1915 to Hurd & Co, Canada. Might have even been in the same shipment, and a letter would confirm this.

Congrats!!!!

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Jim
S&WCA #819