I'd like to share with you a M1917 serial #394 I bought a couple months back. It was in my LGS with pearl grips and no lanyard ring. I couldn't believe there was a low serial number 1917 sitting there for what he wanted and it had not been quickly snagged up. I bought new reproduction grips and lanyard ring. I also received a letter from SRS. Enjoy.

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Ryan

Nice gun.

Is the hammer grooved? The early guns had grooved hammers and the grips had concave tops.

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What a remarkably EARLY one to find! Wow!

I would expect a 'grooved' Hammer also on one this early.


Lovely old m1917!!


It shows to go you - one never knows what Treasures one's LGS might have, when one least expects it!


Say, if you do not wish to keep the Pearl Stocks, may I buy them from you? I have an old period-Custom N-Frame from the same time period, which they would work well on.

Hammer is grooved where your thumb would go. PM me for the Pearl Grips. The new grips were the closest I could find for the price.

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Ryan

Early Hammers had concentric tiny 'grooves' on their sides.

I will see if I can find a picture and post a link here in a minute.

Same Hammer was used on the Registered Magnums later on.

Possibly, your Revolver got a replacement Hammer somewhere along the way, or, maybe, the earliest OF the "Early" used a smooth side Hammer?

I do not know.

The super 'early' of any Model sometimes tend to have their oddities!


Much obliged!

Will do!

Link to an image showing a 'groove' sided Hammer on an early S & W m1917 Revolver -

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...6/IMG_1609.jpg

"Same Hammer was used on the Registered Magnums later on."

The RMs had hammers with grooved sides, but the top, from the end of the spur forward, had a different checkering pattern.

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Oh my...

So, were all of the Registered Magnums the then new 'Humpback' Hammer?

Somehow, I thought they came either way - either Hammer shape of the time.

I may indeed have been in error with that.

Nope, all the RM's were not the Humpback. Some had the humpback but the ones that didn't still had a hammer that had different checkering on the top from that of a 1917 grooved hammer.
I just bought a 4 digit serial number 1917 that has the grooved hammer. Very strangely though it did not have the "GHS" inspector mark on the frame.
Thanks for sharing yet another VERY low serial numbered 1917!

Roger

The sides of the hammer are smooth. May have been a replacement. The LGS had no idea or wasn't willing to tell me where it came from. The barrel, cylinder and butt serial numbers match but the extractor doesn't. Should it?

I noticed of few of you in this thread are SWCA members. I let my membership lapse a couple years back and would like to get back into the Assoc. Any help?

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Ryan

Thanks Roger!


I will definitely be trying to look into these Hammer types used on the RMs.


Interesting stuff!