Thanks kbm6893. Very interesting detail I was never aware of...the first Service Six was blued with a hammer. I collect NYPD guns and never came across that information. From the video it appears to be a 4" barrel.
Yeah. 4" barrel. RM Rivas, a member here, could tell you how long they were in service, but it wasn't long, and the Model 10 was by far more popular. I don't think it had any NYPD markings like the spurless hammer's did, so it would be hard to tell if one was a true NYPD gun, unless you bought it from a retired cop. The .38 chambering would be a good indicator, but I'd imagine other agencies wanted .38 only.
On a different note, I worked with a dirty cop. He was always shady. Don't wanna print his name. He had a kid with medical issues and became corrupt. He formed a robbery crew and did high end jewelry stores. Never hurt anybody other than pushing them around during the robberies. Not excusing him, just saying.
So they do a robbery of a shop in Garden City, Long Island, in Nassau County. Right over the city border and big bucks area. Susan Lucci lived there (soap opera actress). So the Nassau cops are watching the video of a successful robbery and one of them was former NYPD. He looks at the screen and he says "that looks like an NYPD gun". Spurless hammer and stainless 4" revolver. He had gotten the 9MM and had his old .38. Never fired it. Not dumb enough to leave ballistic evidence. Just waved it.
I'm sure there were other things that pointed them to him but seeing that revolver on a screen absolutely got them looking at NYC cops. The knowledge of crime scenes and police response factored in, too. They did their robberies during shift changes when response would be slower. The days of the robberies were either on his day off, or several of them were on days he took Lost Time (using personal leave to leave early). His UF-28's (form a cop used to request time off) were part of the evidence used to get his arrest warrant.
