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Can you post the list of known RAF fakes?

RAF S&W Thank you Alan, I can begin working on my set soon. Here's a 1941 dated 25 Pattern holster, a 1941 dated 37 Pattern, a 1940 build revolver and a carton of twelve 1941 dated rounds by Royal Arsenal.

Hello Peter, here's 699756 in an RAF 37 Pattern, made by MW&S Ltd in 1943. This is a photo supplied by the previous owner. I have a both the RAF 37 and 25 Patterns in my collection, both 1941 dated. I will try both when able. Hello Alan, did the remaining 17,500 guns of A-429 ship to England...

R.A.F Issue .38 Hello Alan, Apologies for the delay in response. I've had a look over my example (699756) and cannot find a broad arrow marking. Did mine fall into the Egyptian shippment? I've been slowly working on my set, acquiring a box of Royal Arsenal made .38 rounds, dated...

Hello Alan, Does the above give any indication for 699756? Also, do we know when the first of this model arrived in England? I'm a re-enactor would like to know the earliest date the revolver would be appropriate for, even if my serial number is later it can masquerade as an earlier...

It'll make the Americans cry but here's the basic low-down as I understand it. *Barrel cut open, all the way through to the chamber with a hardened steel rod welded in. *Cylinder walls cut open and cylinders blocked. *Mechanism between trigger and hammer destroyed. *Firing pin and hole ground...

RAF S&W Excellent thread chaps! I'm really looking forward to finding out more. Did S&W supply cleaning rods with these exported revolvers? I'm not sure which cleaning rod would be correct to display with the RAF 25 Pattern holster? Apparently, these rods were supplied for the Victory model...

S&W RAF This passage caught my eye. "Very interesting history. This gun, ser. # 700701, and may have been in a group of revolvers with 6 inch barrels, that included ser. # 701178, (also marked RAF in same fashion as 700701) that were ready to ship in Jan. 1940, but for reasons unknown now, did...

RAF S&W Thank you for the response, much apprieciated! Is there a way to track down a day, week or month of production within 1940? Or to trace it's movements, such it's sale to Britain? How did this purchasing work and who transported bulk firearm purchases across the atlantic to Britain...

Hello chaps, I have a 6" barrel, S&W, R.A.F property marked (M&P?) revolver. Number on butt 699756, apparently the number 32120 is also present. Original bluing as far as I can tell, said to have been issued to an RAF pilot in WW2, he kept it after the war and it was in his possession...