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First off, let me just state that I know no one can authoratively state anything for sure regarding my particular gun, without proper examination by a gunsmith, etc, etc. I am just looking for some general ideas though to point my in the right direction before doing that. I have an early 40's K...

Well thank you all very much, everyone that chimed in with some information. Its been a bit of a roller coaster finding out some of the past of this gun, very interesting. I hadn't known much at all about revolvers or Smith and Wessons in particular but through researching this and other things...

Here is a shot looking down the chambers. The serial numbers on the cylinder face and the grip match each other. It doesn't have any military markings or stamps and no V's near the serials anywhere. Possibly a pre-victory? Someone mentioned the trigger had been changed out, possibly when the...

So if I am getting everything straight, then this firearm started life in the early 40's as a K-frame with a 4 or 5 inch barrel, chambered in .38 special and intended for the Defense Supplies Corporation or possibly military. It was later re-barreled from some other 1940's era gun. And refit...

Here is a shot of the barrel. It is marked "38 S&W SPC CTG" The gun came with some old boxes of .38 Special 158 grain and 148 grain wadcutter target rounds and it definitely chambers them comfortably. I checked the other places for numbers. The cylinder face is stamped "915XXX" which matches...

Oh, guess I was barking up the wrong tree then looking for j frame related sources :P figures. Any references you could point me towards?

Greetings all. I am trying to help a friend ID a gun acquired from an estate sale. I have been browsing a few sources online and all indications are that its a 5-screw J-frame .38 snubby from the early 1950's. However, the serial number on the grip looks to be way too high for that era, I was...