.22 hand eject question

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I'm trying to find out the model and year of manufacture of this S&W .22. I am a little confused because I have what appears to be a serial number on the bottom of the grip frame and a different number on the frame when I open the cylinder. Can anyone tell me what I have here?
 

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The serial number is the one on the bottom of the butt. The other number is the assembly number and has nothing to do with the serial number or when the gun was made. S&W keeps no records of the assembly number, only the serial number. K214406 would be approx. early 1954. Ed #15
 
In case you wondered, those are not the original stocks. That is not necessarily a big deal because a lot of pre-model-marked K-frames don't have original stocks on them. Your gun would have come with magnas that had unscored diamonds around the screw holes, or possibly optional target stocks. Your gun has a target hammer, which was an available option on guns at the time yours was made, but was not the standard hammer. The target hammer may have been original on your gun at shipment time, or it may have been installed later. The stocks necessarily postdate 1968, when the diamonds disappeared.

In any event, K-22s are wonderful guns. That one has a good finish for something nearly 60 years old. Congratulations!
 

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