625-2 3"

[GaryinOKC]

This one has me a little confused. 625-2 3". Box SN to gun. But the barrel is marked Model of 1989. Product code is 100923. I thought the -2 were all model 1988. The more I learn about S&W the more I realize how little I know.

 

[colt_saa]

At least one other of our fellow Forum members has one like that.

The two most important rules about Smith & Wesson collecting is that:
1) Every rule will have an exception
2) Smith & Wesson wastes nothing

Smith & Wesson is a tool manufacturer, not a collectibles Company, so transitions do not always happen as cleanly as a Collector might like.

If at the time the Factory was ready to release the 3" Model of 1989, some -2 frames were found on the shelf, the Factory would have used up the -2 frames.

According to the end label, your revolver was manufactured on January 22nd of 1990.

Kind of interesting since my -2 (SKU 100921) Model of 1988 is numbered less than 2000 before yours but was manufactured almost a year earlier on February 18th of 1989

 

[GaryinOKC]

625-2

Yeah I am seeing that nothing with S&W is carved in stone. I knew it before but seeing it first hand now. Nice addition to my little SW accumulation.

At least one other of our fellow Forum members has one like that.

The two most important rules about Smith & Wesson collecting is that:
1) Every rule will have an exception
2) Smith & Wesson wastes nothing

Smith & Wesson is a tool manufacturer, not a collectibles Company, so transitions do not always happen as cleanly as a Collector might like.

If at the time the Factory was ready to release the 3" Model of 1989, some -2 frames were found on the shelf, the Factory would have used up the -2 frames.

According to the end label, your revolver was manufactured on January 22nd of 1990.

Kind of interesting since my -2 (SKU 100921) Model of 1988 is numbered less than 2000 before yours but was manufactured almost a year earlier on February 18th of 1989