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I was looking through some of my photos this morning and these ones made me smile. :) The grips were purchased on eBay and then "polished" to a high luster with some Flitz and a lot of elbow grease. I love the grain on the grips and the way they fit my hand. I'd love to see photos of...

A while back I picked up this Chiefs Special. It shipped in April 1965 to HH Harris in Chicago as a plain gun. Sometime later in its life it was engraved. Some documentation that I received with the gun attributes the engraving to Daniel Love, a FEGA Master Engraver of Arthur, IA. As always...

A little while back I picked up this delightful victory model. The engraving on it is masterfully laid out and beautifully executed. The engraving ”canvas” of a Victory would not nave been my first choice, but the artistic engraving, layout and coverage are very pleasing to my eye. I need to get...

Two of my primary collecting focuses are K-22s and engraved guns. Occasionally I find a 22 that causes me to stray a bit from those focuses. This spectacular Arnold Griebel engraved 1960 Colt Woodsman is one of those guns. That said, it is a 22 and it is engraved by one of my favorite...

... another hole in my head. For whatever reason that knowledge does not stop me from examining every K-22 I come across. Today on the way out of our local gun show (with nothing to show for my time, except for renewing some connections with fellow collectors), I saw a gentleman walking...

... and a few other 38 Special snub-nosed J frames.:cool: I picked up a new to me one today and thought I'd get them all out for a group shot with my iPhone.:) I'd love to see your groupings (one or more :D) of Chiefs Specials or any other J Frame snubbies. Thanks for letting me share,

I never owned a Smith & Wesson 44 Special. Several months ago that changed.:) I am now the proud owner of this 44 Hand Ejector Target (Pre 24). It is factory engraved and shipped to Rex Firearms in New York City on May 4, 1954. I'm not sure if it has ever been fired. This photoshoot...

With all the recent threads devoted to the 38/44 Outdoorsman in all its beauty, I thought I'd share a few photos of this April 1952 shipped Outdoorsman that I acquired a few months ago. The collector who owned it before me was notorious for getting S&W to customize his guns to his liking. This...

I was in my local gun store picking up a transfer of an engraved 357. While there, I asked if they had any used Smiths that I may be interested in. The answer, "we just might...", whereupon he produced a beautiful little round butt nickeled model 36... followed by a blue round butt... followed...

This 6.5" Magnum, that shipped in April 1953, is the product of several talented craftsmen - Phil Quigley Engraving, Derek Fernelius gold line work inlays, Keith Brown custom grips, Nelson Ford action job and gold bead front sight, and of course the men and women employed by Smith & Wesson in...

I picked this one up yesterday. When I brought it home, it had a set of smooth presentation target grips that had been re-finished with a very thick and yellowing lacquer. I had a spare set of oil finished Keith Brown Ropers in the wood pile that I mated with this gun. The seller stated that...

Nothing conscious, but over the years three K-Frame 38 specials with "Farrant-Clipped" grip frames have migrated into my collection. I had them all out today and snapped a few iPhone photos... The 6" K-38 Masterpiece came to me with it's numbered magnas, but having them on the gun...

A lot of my collection is comprised of nicely engraved S&Ws. HOWEVER, I also have an extreme fondness for, and a collection of well-used (but not abused) and purposefully modified S&W revolvers. One of the primary reasons that I collect the engraved and well-used/modified guns is that with the...

As many of you know, I have been collecting engraved Smith & Wessons for a long time. Over the years, I have seen many beautifully engraved guns, some of which I have been able to wrangle into my corral. I can say that this is one of the finest engraved S&W revolvers that I have ever seen. I...

A few weeks ago, I bit on an auction for a "Smith and Wesson model 19, custom 357mag". Looking at photos that were not very clear, the gun was a 5-screw, had 1970's target grips on it, a trigger shoe, a bobbed hammer and a 5" tapered barrel with proud front sight pins (it also shipped with an...

One of the most beautiful S&W ever produced was the pre-war M&P Target guns. The tapered barrel, the one- and two-screw rear sights contoured to the frame, the glassy high polish blue, and the proportions that were... JUST RIGHT.:cool::) To start it off - here is SN 642784, a 1905 4th Change...

Over the years I have seen more than a handful of these tastefully modified M&Ps with the Red Stag custom grips - more than half of them were engraved. I've always wanted to have one in my collection and finally I was the winning bidder on one. I really like it and would love to hear your...

I found the below 22 Combat Masterpiece at a local show yesterday. It was dirty and well used, but she spoke to me as I walked slowly past her several times. She whispered... "You want me. Take me home with you. Clean and polish me. Love me... and you can shoot me whenever you want." I...

For years, I have been looking to acquire a S&W engraved by Lynton McKenzie (a very talented engraver, who was a mentor to my friend and master engraver, Phil Quigley). I have photos of some of the beautiful work he did, but have never seen one for sale. That changed a couple of months ago...

This little guy came "home" to AZ recently. It left the factory in January 1979 and sometime later in its life spent some quality time at the engraver's bench of a talented artist. There is a "CN" (or "GN" as observed in some of the below posts) engraver mark on the gun, but I have not...