Age of 32 hand ejector? With Photos

[hsguy]

Very nice looking 32 HE, these are great great little guns. Regarding the stocks, the factory did use pre-war shaped grips on some of the post-war round butt guns. Here are two pre-10's I owned that both have this type of grips that are numbered to the guns. If you notice the grips on the bottom gun appear to be checkered in the pre-war style style and the top gun while retaining the early shape have post-war style of checkering. I have wondered if the grips on the bottom were leftover pre-war grips and the top ones later production

 

[HeyJoe]

it seems i have a pre-post war gun.......ha

im going to print out a form and send in for a history, should be interesting.

thanks for the responses

 

[DCWilson]

Hello Dave
Here is a Pre-30 that shipped in 1958 with the Small left hand Logo...and a Model 34-1 that shipped in the early 1980's time span with the same Logo and location of it... Hammerdown

Kurt, you're right. And I found a couple of photos of other even earlier postwar I-frames with the small logo on the left. So I just misremembered the immediate postwar practice.

A man could get whiplash trying to follow the logo from side to side on these guns. Worse than following a championship tennis match.

 

[Hammerdown]

Hello David
I think The K-Frame and N-Frame models had the S&W trade mark moved much more from side to side than the smaller J-Frame or I frame models did through time Periods...

 

[HeyJoe]

I received the historical letter today from Roy Jinks. The gun was shipped from the factory on July 21,1949. You guys were right on the money it has features of both pre and post war guns. Thanks to all for taking the time to answer my question.