I suggest you request a Factory Letter and make sure you include as many "High Quality" photographs as you can. Close-up Photos of the entire gun including such areas as the inside of the Stocks, Back of the Cylinder and under the Extractor and both sides of the Frame with the Stocks removed. Of course, Photos of any and all markings on the gun should be included.

By the serial number this would indeed seem to be a first year of production gun but I "believe" that those early 1st Model H.E. Triple Locks were equipped with the Gold Medallion Stocks. And they would be numbered to the gun unless they were replaced at some point which may account for the lack of number and Medallions.

At present, Roy has something like 600 letter requests sitting on his desk and so it will take some time to get a reply.

Mike