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First, hello to all members.
First photo is my father, fought in the Pacific including the Battle of the Phillipine Sea. Second is of the S&W he "scrounged" (his word) and restored in the field. It was rusted with no grips and being a bit of an amateur gunsmith he fabricated the grips from Plexiglass that came from a downed zero. It looks like at one time it had a lanyard as there is a hole in the butt. Heres the kicker...what is NOT on the butt is a serial number. Every other stamping including the logo is crisp, and it does not look like the strap was filed down much. Ive gone through the threads on serial numbers etc...and at some point Ill probably have an attorney deal with it. Given that there was apparently a lanyard at one point, any chance of identifying a period for the age?
Thanks in advance
First photo is my father, fought in the Pacific including the Battle of the Phillipine Sea. Second is of the S&W he "scrounged" (his word) and restored in the field. It was rusted with no grips and being a bit of an amateur gunsmith he fabricated the grips from Plexiglass that came from a downed zero. It looks like at one time it had a lanyard as there is a hole in the butt. Heres the kicker...what is NOT on the butt is a serial number. Every other stamping including the logo is crisp, and it does not look like the strap was filed down much. Ive gone through the threads on serial numbers etc...and at some point Ill probably have an attorney deal with it. Given that there was apparently a lanyard at one point, any chance of identifying a period for the age?
Thanks in advance
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