Recent content by Brillo

Talked to mom some more. He actually carried this gun in the 40s and 50s. We are checking to see if my grandmother had it refinished. The stamps on the barrel are faint and the S&W logo on the side plate can't be seen. So it's proly been refinished. But since I'm not looking to sell it, I'm...

I'll see if I can get a good pic of the markings tomorrow. I says Smith and Wesson and Springfield Mass USA on the right side of the barrel. It's hard to see maybe because of the finish or wore down from holstering. You have to move barrel around in the light to see the writing but can easily...

The mark is on the side. I don't see anything on the top. Is this right?

What are the roll marks you are referring too? Sorry but I'm not educated on this gun.....not yet anyway. Learned a whole lot about it from the posts.

Hate that it appears the gun was maybe refInished. Me and mom are going to try to find out names and all the information on the officers who carried it then redo the shadow box with the story in it. Maybe put more pictures of my granddad in there. Hopefully we can find one where he was still...

Another pic.

Pictures Yall have me very interested in the gun so I took it out of the shadow box and I want to clean it again before putting it back in there. What is the best solution to used to clean this? Also I have more pictures I took with it out so maybe yall can tell me more about it. Any...

Not sure what Smith offered her. She never told me and she has passed away now. I do know there is no amount of money that would have taken for it being that it was my granddad's and the history of the 2 fallen officers.

He carried it because the Sheriff he was working for carried it. The Sheriff's wife bought it for him and he carried it. He was serving a warrant, and when he approached the house, he was shot and killed. His wife wanted my granddad to have it because the sheriff considered him a son. My...

Here is another pic with less glare I hope. I would hate to break into the shadow box and take the gun out.

How would I tell if it's a triple lock? It's in a shadow box sealed up.

I'm not sure. I just kinda got into guns, that's why my mom passed it down. I do know that when my grandfather passed away, my grandmother sent it to Smith and had them clean it up and check it over. When they received it, they called her and tried to buy it from her but she wouldn't sell it...

I just had this pistol passed down to me from my mom. It was carried by my granddad in the 60s and 70s when he was an Alabama State Trooper. I don't want to sell the gun. I would just like to know a little about the gun that my granddad used to carry. There's a lot of history with this gun...