Post Your "Pairs" - and Thoughts on the Magic of Pairs

[RKmesa]

Terry's post on the Leo Rice 4.5" RMs got me thinking. For whatever reason, many collectors look for guns in pairs. Maybe it is the fact that we have two hands and it just feels right to have a gun in each hand. Maybe it is that there is just something magical about seeing a pair of guns lying next to each other or in a two gun rig, or in a custom case... Whatever the reason it is fun, at least for me, to see pairs of S&Ws photographed together.

So... this thread is dedicated to the posting of your pairs. I'll start is off with this pair of Factory engraved .357 Magnums that a gracious member allowed me to add to my collection a few years back...





and matched in/on their Huey custom case...





I'm very much looking forward to seeing your pairs...

Thanks for letting me share,

 

[Kurusu]

Pairs!?

They came in Pairs!?



Edit. The only handguns I have to make pairs were not made by Smith & Wesson. And they weren't even made in the same year.

 

[colt_saa]

OK, For Real

KHP Commemorative 586s

In it's factory supplied Presnetation case
Showing off the wonderful badge miniature

The rest of mine are not engraved and many more are not Smith & Wessons

3 1/2" Model 27s

45 Long Colt Mountain Guns

45 Long Colt Pug Noses

41 Magnum 8 3/8" revolvers

PDR/UDR

CS-10 Auto Loaders

3 Pairs
A Model 25 and a Model 17 each pair having matching serial numbers

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[Keith Brown]

Richard yours would be almost impossible to beat !
I do like these two together, I favor Target sighted Smiths and these are a match in condition, one in 38 special and one 32-20

 

[SAFireman]

Very nice Richard!

Hard to improve on that set

 

[lamarw]

A double handful of 27-2 goodness. They will "reach out there and touch em".

 

[mikepriwer]

Here is a pair of 4" .32 long sequentially serial-numbered target revolvers, in the 32-20 serial number series, made in 1910. They were ordered by a target shooter in St Louis. One was shipped to him, the other to another target shooter in St Louis.

The next picture is a pair of matched K-frame target revolvers, made up for Fred Miller, managing the service department, in 1940. One revolver is a .38, and the other is a .22 . The grips are custom Roper stocks.

The next picture is a pair of 'McGivern Model' 5-inch .38 N-frames, from the 1930's. They are a sequentially-numbered pair, and made as a pair. One is factory-engraved, as a gift from Ed McGivern to F W Millington, a double-action shooter of the period. When ordering a special engraved gun, such as this one, the factory made two guns, as a pair, so that if something went wrong in the engraving process, they could use the second gun! The backup gun was shipped one day after the first one, to someone who apparently knew McGivern, according to the factory letter. I acquired the second gun about 5 years after acquiring the gift gun.

Regards, Mike Priwer

 

[girvin02]

My only pair that is appropriate for this time frame.

K-22 & K-38 Combat Masterpieces

 

[paplinker]

Well here is a pair of King super targets.
One of my favorites I own

 

[nyeti]

A pair of Jim Stroh 38/44's converted to .44 special with Walrus Ivory.

 

[lestert357]

Very nice Richard!

Hard to improve on that set

Oh, he's just getting warmed up. Wait until he digs out some of those long barreled pairs![emoji4]

 

[shrade]

assorted pairs

Nothing to compare with RK's but I realy like these pairs.
A pair of Outdoorsman, 1934-1954. Both shooters
Another pair of Outdoorsman both 1934, one for the holster one for the safe.
Two from 1951 one nice, and one nicer.

 

[Art Doc]

Don't have an exactly matching pair. These are as close as I can get.

Fourth Model 44 Targets shipped April and September of 1955. One had the barrel cut to 5" and the other apparently had a replacement 5" barrel swapped on. Maybe the last one they had since the other was cut.

Had RR/WO sights installed. Got wide, smooth triggers. How do they differ? One is satin blue and the other is bright blue. Very subtle difference.

 

[RKmesa]

What a great bunch of posts!!! I love all the pairs so far. This is a pair of Outdoorsman Revolvers that I had engraved by Phil Quigley and finished with a two-tone finish...

38/44:




K-22

 

[rubiranch]

You beat me to it.




This is as close as I can get to a pair.
They are just alike only different.

 

[moralem]

Post Your "Pairs" - and Thoughts on the Magic of Pairs

I wouldn't quite call it the magic of pairs....more the OCD of multiples.......

 

[moralem]

I tell you it is a compulsion that will be the death of me......

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[ISCS Yoda]

I was hoping y'all would stretch it into other guns beyond the "S&W Hand Ejectors: 1896 to 1961" Forum requirements. Now I feel free to play!

A M25 and a M27 "paired" with stocks from bgmntman:

I'll skip the M10 that wears similar stocks and just stick with the "paired" N frames.

But then there are these and I bought them as a pair but changed their matching Pearlite grips to faux ivory:

And I bought the Kareen to be a pair with the Browning:

 

[Doc44]

The first pair of 44 Magnums (actually ordered as a pair) shipped by S&W in a case by Marvin Huey. True "pairs" are very rare. Click on the photo for a better look.

Bill

 

[Kurusu]

Ok...

I'll sneak these in.

Pair of C96s.

Three of a kind.

Only the bottom 2 were made by the same manufacturer(different years though, 1938 and 1941 ). But they are all P.08 pistols.