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Another interesting auction - Modified, Engraved S&W
This one was recently found by a friend on GunBroker and has had some interesting mods done.......
Guessing it started as a .38 Hand Ejector with blue finish.
Looks like a cut down barrel, rib/front sight added, engraved, nickel finish and pearl stocks.
S&W logo on side plate has been replaced with the initials "E H".
Neat looking little piece!
Have requested a ship date from Roy.
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I have buyers lined up if you decide to sell! 
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[QUOTE=handejector;140882312] I have buyers lined up if you decide to sell!
HA....Now that's funny!! But about right.......maybe the initials EH is of some significance.......hmmmm.....
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Well Pimp My S&W...LMAO
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Hey! My initials are EH. Really. I could put that to good use  Might have to buy some .38 dies, but that is doable! That's real MOP, right? 
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What? No gold on the hammer and trigger? Just a pretender then.
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Hey! My initials are EH. Really. I could put that to good use Might have to buy some .38 dies, but that is doable! That's real MOP, right? |
I have not had this gun in my hands.....looks like MOP stocks to me though, doubt someone would go that crazy with engraving and put fake on it.
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I think this is the fanciest "dressed-up" ex-British Service model I've ever seen.
As a six-shot .38 S&W, it can't be anything else. Those grips are really ill-fitting, by the way.
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Like I said I have not had this one in my hands so hard to tell from the photos, but sounds like you may be right about it being a Lend/Lease gun....
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That front sight is kinda sexy...
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Guessing it started as a .38 Hand Ejector with blue finish.
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I think this is the fanciest "dressed-up" ex-British Service model I've ever seen.
As a six-shot .38 S&W, it can't be anything else. Based on the position of the caliber rollmark, it was a 6" barrel, so a pre-Victory. Those grips are really ill-fitting, by the way.
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There's the awesome post war engraving and metal work work of Kurt Jaeger...
and then there's this.
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Those look like imitation MOP to me, but that's just my opinion. Looks like the escutcheon is missing from one side. The whole front sight/base/rib is very unusual but I kinda like it.
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Originally Posted by THREEDFLYER
This one was recently found by a friend on GunBroker and has had some interesting mods done.......
Guessing it started as a .38 Hand Ejector with blue finish.
Looks like a cut down barrel, rib/front sight added, engraved, nickel finish and pearl stocks.
S&W logo on side plate has been replaced with the initials "E H".
Neat looking little piece!
Have requested a ship date from Roy.
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I was watching that one go. Definitely a unique gun but it was pretty tastefully done. Glad you picked it up!
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A friend of mine in Washington State purchased it.......He just asked me to help him identify it so I posted his photos here.
But I think it's an interesting piece as well.
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I have not had this gun in my hands.....looks like MOP stocks to me though, doubt someone would go that crazy with engraving and put fake on it.
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No Screw Escutcheons in the Stocks...
They look like plastic ( or imitation MOP, as it were, ) to my own glance, rather than real 'MOP'.
Plating may be Chrome, also...
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I like it. Front sight is nice.
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That, I believe started out as one of the Parker Hale 'conversions' on the Victory 38S&W's
That front sight looks like theirs and then some further whittling to give some artsy look.
Many of the P/H sight ramps used on these conversions had a slight forward facing slant to sight base itself. Some more pronounced and in length than others.
I think the modified plated revolver used that feature and took it a bit further.
The Plated gun's caliber marking is 38SW,,so I'd lean towards the cylinder being reamed to 38Spcl if it is a P/H conversion.
But P/H did, in it's post war ads have catalog #'s for the conversions if you want the revolver (left in it's orig 38S&W caliber.
Choice of bbl lengths was 2 1/4 (quickdraw sight!),,,4" (this ramp sight),,5" avail as mfg (I'm guessing) w/orig military front sight..
Sure is an eye catcher!
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That, I believe started out as one of the Parker Hale 'conversions' on the Victory 38S&W's
That front sight looks like theirs and then some further whittling to give some artsy look.
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Looking at an original P-H conversion with their ramp sight, I'm not sure these can be reconciled.
Add to that the inelegant soldering and the non-matching ejector rod tip, which may mean a later cylinder was put in, and the whole thing seems more likely a homegrown project.
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Looking at an original P-H conversion with their ramp sight, I'm not sure these can be reconciled.
Add to that the inelegant soldering and the non-matching ejector rod tip, which may mean a later cylinder was put in, and the whole thing seems more likely a homegrown project.
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Good catch, and you are probably right about being a home project......I will try to get more information and photos from my friend once he has the gun in his possession......it's being held up by the Washington State waiting period.
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At the risk of prying , does a one-off , eye of the beholder item such as that command any significant value?
Higher than , say , a stock M&P of the same era in fairly high condition?
Edit/addendum :
A quick search of "completed items" turned it up. Your buddy goes by "1950 IndianChief".
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