Added S&W logo
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Maybe they replaced the side plate, and added the new hammer block. Just a wild guess on my part.
Chief, you should take that side4 plate off to see. Actually, just look to see if the block goes down as you cock it. Post war S prefix type.
StrawHat
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At some point, during a factory rework, it was not unusual for all the stamps to be “updated”. Roy Jinks put an end to it, but I forget when.
Kevin
Kevin
There was a time (before Jinks put a stop to it) when pre-1948(?) guns returned to the factory for service were stamped with the "4 line address". This added logo MAY be another example of the same foolishness.
If it was me, I'd take advantage of the "Questions For Roy" (or whatever similar label it carries) feature on the SWCA Forum. (You don't show here as a SWCA member. If so, your options are to join---or a sneaky option would be to ask a member friend to pose the question for you.)
I'm inclined to STRONGLY suspect this logo stamping is another example of the same sort of foolishness. If that's the case, you may well learn that it too was done away with----at the same or some other time.
All this is another way of saying I don't KNOW the answer to your question, but a good guess is as I said----and I'm confident enough of my guessing that I'd bet money on it.
Ralph Tremaine
I see Kevin beat me to it---but that's probably because he didn't run his mouth as much as I did----and usually do.
If it was me, I'd take advantage of the "Questions For Roy" (or whatever similar label it carries) feature on the SWCA Forum. (You don't show here as a SWCA member. If so, your options are to join---or a sneaky option would be to ask a member friend to pose the question for you.)
I'm inclined to STRONGLY suspect this logo stamping is another example of the same sort of foolishness. If that's the case, you may well learn that it too was done away with----at the same or some other time.
All this is another way of saying I don't KNOW the answer to your question, but a good guess is as I said----and I'm confident enough of my guessing that I'd bet money on it.
Ralph Tremaine
I see Kevin beat me to it---but that's probably because he didn't run his mouth as much as I did----and usually do.
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I have not seen a lot of Factory refinished 1917s. I suppose the Service Dept did not like the fact that it lacked a logo and added one.
If you look under the grips, there is probably a date from the 60s or 70s.
In the 1970s, they were adding the four line address to guns that were not marked "Made In USA". I have seen Triple Locks with the four line address.
Roy Jinks stopped that practice in the early-mid 70s.
If you look under the grips, there is probably a date from the 60s or 70s.
In the 1970s, they were adding the four line address to guns that were not marked "Made In USA". I have seen Triple Locks with the four line address.
Roy Jinks stopped that practice in the early-mid 70s.
Impossible!...No human can be that coordinated!...My own keyboard has only one fingerprint on it - well maybe the occasional left index on the shift key...
...BenMy Model of 1917 (s/n 132922) is about the same vintage as yours...late 1918, and has only the standard military marks. When yours was sent back to the factory for work, they may have stamped the logo on your original sideplate, or swapped out the original sideplate for a commercial sideplate (according to SCSW 4th Ed., "The S&W trademark was not stamped on military frames but is observed on commercial variations."). It may depend upon when the revolver was returned to S&W. Either way, you have a nice .45 ACP revolver that should be a lot of fun to shoot!
I have not seen a lot of Factory refinished 1917s. I suppose the Service Dept did not like the fact that it lacked a logo and added one.
If you look under the grips, there is probably a date from the 60s or 70s.
In the 1970s, they were adding the four line address to guns that were not marked "Made In USA". I have seen Triple Locks with the four line address.
Actually (I say "Actually" without being so sure about it.), while they were most certainly adding the four line address to guns that were not marked "Made In USA", they were also adding the additional three lines of the four line address to guns that WERE marked (only) with "Made In USA" (the one line address)----talk about picking a nit!. Needless to say, this greatly offended charter members of the lunatic fringe---like me(!!)----and a whole bunch of the other whack jobs!! And never mind they never added such to one of my guns, because the only gun I sent back (during that period) already had the four line address.
Ralph Tremaine
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chiefdave
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I have not seen a lot of Factory refinished 1917s. I suppose the Service Dept did not like the fact that it lacked a logo and added one.
If you look under the grips, there is probably a date from the 60s or 70s.
In the 1970s, they were adding the four line address to guns that were not marked "Made In USA". I have seen Triple Locks with the four line address.
The rework date stamped on the frame is 1154. The safety block was not added.
Ah Ha! The lawyers must have had the day off.
That’s a nice one to get a letter for and then you can send for the work order to find out what was done.
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