1905 HE comes full circle.

tom32 · #1 05-10-2010, 01:39 PM

A while back I purchased a Smith & Wesson 1905 4th Change 32-20 from a fellow in the southeast.

It was in very nice condition so I decided to get a letter on it. The letter arrived today. I was reading about the history and development when I came to the paragraph specific to my gun. It says it was shipped on October 28, 1922 to Baker and Crosby in Lincoln, NE. That is about 25 miles from where I live. So, in almost 90 years the gun traveled halfway across the country, then back to the east, and finally back west again.

DCWilson · #2 05-10-2010, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by tom32

A while back I purchased a Smith & Wesson 1905 4th Change 32-20 from a fellow in the southeast.

It was in very nice condition so I decided to get a letter on it. The letter arrived today. I was reading about the history and development when I came to the paragraph specific to my gun. It says it was shipped on October 28, 1922 to Baker and Crosby in Lincoln, NE. That is about 25 miles from where I live. So, in almost 90 years the gun traveled halfway across the country, then back to the east, and finally back west again.

I'm fascinated at stories like this involving the movement of specific revolvers around the country. Last year I bought a .38/44 Outdoorsman out of Tennessee, where it seems to have been for at least the last half century. When I lettered it, I found it had shipped in early 1932 to a hardware distributor in Los Angeles, just 50 miles up the road from me. Some guns do seem to want to come home.