66-1 provenance
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Mid-1980, says the fantastic Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson, by Supica & Nahas, currently in it's 4th Edition.
Endless fantastic reading and loaded with great pictures, information and tables… including serial number look-ups!
Endless fantastic reading and loaded with great pictures, information and tables… including serial number look-ups!
The tables in the SCSW are estimates. More specific information I have in my possession says 74K numbers were assigned in 1981. S&W did not assign serial numbers to all frames in sequential order, so the straight line lists in SCSW sometimes don't apply. Just look, for example, at the K numbers given on p. 489 in the 4th Edition. The numbers jump around from one year to the next. Example: Some 5K numbers were used in '73 and '74, along with 4K and 7K. The 1980 to 1983 numbers are actually all jumbled up.
In other words, it is more complex than we often think it is. The only way to know for sure is to get Roy or Don to do a records check.
In other words, it is more complex than we often think it is. The only way to know for sure is to get Roy or Don to do a records check.
It is a book. Hardcover, pages… made of paper, most of them are numbered. It can be purchased — and if you wanted to purchase a book, having the name, the author(s) and the current edition helps you to track down the book you're looking for.
Hope that helps!
Hair Trigger
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It still has a barrel pin, so it would be one of the last pinned ones if 1982. Does yours have recessed cylinders? There are quite a few "transition guns" that show up in the last year of an engineering series, right before the next dash number starts, where the gun has some traits of the older series and some of the new.
BTW, the hardcover SCSW is about $35 on Amazon.
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Yes. And if it is 1981, as I suspect, we would expect it to have a pinned barrel and a cylinder that is counter-bored.
Hey Jack-I have a 66-1 2.5 inch gun. It has an 86K serial number. According to Roy it shipped in July 1980, proving your point. Jim
Yes. 86K shows up as 1980 in my listing. Thanks.
According to my database, most likely April/May 1981, give or take a month. Only a LOA would tell you for sure.
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