cgt4570
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From the posts, it looks like a decent percentage of the survivors are owned by us!
K22 Second Model Only 1067 manufactured
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this is a great and informative thread many photos of this rare model. I got mine out to see what the rear sight had on it. mine is stamped "Patents pending". I would imagine that makes it an earlier model.
anybody have any idea of the number with this this stamping verses the ones with the patent number. unfortunately mine is open on the books.
anybody have any idea of the number with this this stamping verses the ones with the patent number. unfortunately mine is open on the books.
I don't have a large enough sample to determine. I think Bruce has at least 4-5 of them. Perhaps he could look at each of his and see if he sees a cutoff pattern. What is your SN?
For mine:
684735 (4/9/1940) has the Patent Pending
687594 (5/16/1940) has the Pat. Number
Thanks,
These are the grips I am shooting with now.
Also my Masterpiece has the silver call bead. Wonder what most shipped with. Shipped 3-13-40
A couple years back I held a regular K22 OD that someone had put a 22/40 short action hammer on.
Also my Masterpiece has the silver call bead. Wonder what most shipped with. Shipped 3-13-40
A couple years back I held a regular K22 OD that someone had put a 22/40 short action hammer on.
Richard,
mine is #684746
mine is #684746
Here's one of mine - that shipped April 9, 1940 in a K-22-40 marked Outdoorsman box...
With the micrometer rear sight (tang contoured to the frame) and the short action, they are probably the finest 22 revolver to ever roll off of ANY factory line.
They are just beautiful!!!
What a gem. Absolutely beautiful.
Where do you find these things, not that I could afford them anyway. 
What a gem. Absolutely beautiful.
I purchased the first one almost 15 years ago from a private collection and paid almost $4.5K for it. That was a lot of money then and is a lot of money today. The package (box, SAT, brochure and gun) is one of the nicest pre-war K-22 Masterpiece original packages I have ever seen. I do have to note that the grips on the first one in the photo above are some KB beauties that I purchased from Keith at a Symposium a few years ago. I have the original magnas, but they are a bit more boring... Here is a photo with the original magnas:
... and with the KB magnas (for comparison):
The second one I purchased at auction over 13 years ago for $2.4K (gun only with non matching standard grips). At a later date, I purchased (i) an almost perfect K-22 Masterpiece box (I paid $1K for the box
if I recall correctly) and (ii) the set of modified pre-war magnas that it is wearing for approx. $200. So I have a little over $3.6K into that one. Both of my guns are worth more today than I paid for them... at least to me.
Thanks for letting me share,
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cgt4570
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I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this thread that the SCSW 5th shows the value tables of the K22-40 to be significantly less than the K22-OD. I mentioned this here and on the SWCA forum when I received my copy. Posts didn't get a lot of traffic. I assume the charts got swapped prior to printing???
I remember your posts. I don’t remember anyone in the know posting to an error. It did seem odd that the values for the K22-40 had declined when it had been much higher than the first K22 it seemed forever. Sometimes things don’t make sense.
Larry
For sure. I agree that they got swapped. Even then, I would purchase every ANIB Pre-War K-22 Masterpiece for $3K and smile the big smile the whole time.
