60-4

[rwadley1]

I am looking at a model 60-4 and the serial number starting with BRR has me a bit confused. It is my understanding the 60-4 ran from 1990 until 1994 (maybe as late as 1999), but SCSW 4th edition seems to place the serial number prefix in 2001. Could a model 60-4 have been shipped that late?

 

[murphydog]

My guess is not only did S & W not ship in letter/numeric order, they probably didn't use the letter prefixes in order. One example, the use of the CEN prefix for the first model 640s when they were otherwise nowhere near the Cs in the system.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

I list a couple Model 60-4s with BRN through BRU serial numbers that shipped in 1994.

At BRR I would bet a dollar to a hole in a doughnut the hammer and trigger are not flash chromed. I haven't seen one after BRN with the flash chromed parts.

Here's my BND with flash chromed parts, shipped in August 1992, and my BSP without flash chromed parts, shipped in March 1995.

The serial numbers I show in the database through this era were shipped in alphabetical order except the Performance Center Model 60-7 ET COMP with its PCQ and PCR serial numbers, which interrupted the flow between BKP and BKL in summer 1993.

Keep in mind the SCSW, 4th Ed., could only publish the information available at the time. We've learned a lot since 2016.

 

[rwadley1]

It doesn't have flash chromed parts.

 

[jculloden]

60-4 BSC shipped 9/3/1994

 

[Lobster Picnic]

BNExxxx shipped 6-22-1992