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01-11-2018, 12:35 AM
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My First 5-screw
Had to rescue this one from a pawnshop this week.
It was marked as a model 64 if you can believe that.
Bore cleaned up well, it's reasonably tight and looks like it's got a few more years left in it.
Serial number is 6568## and the grips match.
Can someone help me with an approximate date of manufacture?
Thanks!
WFR
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01-11-2018, 12:54 AM
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Probably the 1930s.
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01-11-2018, 12:58 AM
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6568xx could have shipped anytime in the 1933-36 period. That's about as close dating as anyone is going to be able to provide you absent a historical letter. But it was probably manufactured early in that range.
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01-11-2018, 01:18 AM
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#659118 went out on December 23, 1936. #640816 on February 8, 1932.
S&W didn't record manufacturing dates for posterity---just shipping dates. That said, this gun (an M&P) was their bread and butter, and I reckon they shipped them about as fast as they could make them. Those numbers I gave you up there are target models. They made a lot fewer of them, and rumor has it they sometimes stuck around for awhile before they were sold; so yours may very well have shipped considerably earlier---but likely still 1936.
We play this guessing game with shipping dates----do the math, and get a mathematically perfect date; but it's just a game. There's exactly one way to find out exactly when it shipped---and where it went. Get a letter.
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01-11-2018, 01:48 AM
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Great looking pistol. It seems like I just caught the old .38 bug recently too. I have been looking for a few lately. I just got this one a couple of days ago. Love the mint Gold Box
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01-11-2018, 01:58 AM
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I could not believe the case hardening colors and check out those grips.
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01-15-2018, 12:43 AM
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I just got another S&W .38 1905 really nice gun. While I was out getting it. Found another 1905. I think it's a great looking pistol. Perfect magnas with silver madallions. They are flawless. And cylinder locks up like a vault. I have never seen any pistol this tight. And looks unfired, looking at the end of the cylinder.
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