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I just purchased a S&W M&P revolver and would like the date it was made. It has a square butt and 5 inch barrel, caliber 38 special. Serial number marked on butt is either a C or O missing part of circle on right sIde and long gap then number 3768xx. Any help would be great. Thanks

For those concerned, here is what I found on the Govt. take over of S&W. Very interesting information: "NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVES #6 - THE MODEL 1917 AND THE 'NATIONAL OPERATING COMPANY' by Charlie Pate. - As some of you known, the Government took over the S&W plant in WWI. Since little has been...

Update on my friends M1917 DA 45: I was mistaken on the S/N it is 139xx made Jan. 1918 per Oldgun.com web page. It has US property stamp on bottom of barrel. It has S/N as in picture provided above by Hondo44 but does not have the USS Army Model 1917 markings and no sign of filing it off. It...

A friend of mine purchased a M1917 DA revolver and I ran his S/N on Oldguns web page. It showed April 1918 mfg. date but his revolver doesn't have the US Army stamped on the grip butt. It does have US property stamped under barrel. Did they make some with US Govt property stamp under barrel...