Help ID S&W Handcuffs?

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Probably paid too much for these up this morning at our local flea market. However, they had no model number... serial number with 4 line address: "Made in USA, Marcas Registrada, Smith & Wesson, Springfield, Mass" and a "Patent Pending" stamp. Look to me like the earlier model 100 without model marks. Early 1950's? Thanks for any insight. (Note: blackjack in background found at same flea market a few months ago and is shown in the 1951 Federal Laboratories catalog.)

 

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Randy, those with the patent pending marking are the earliest of the Model 100 line produced before manufacturing moved to Maine. I'm pretty sure they're a bit newer than the '50s, however. I'm not positive but I believe the older Model 9x-series cuffs were produced up into the 1970s before the Model 100 arrived.

Edit: the folks at the Handcuffs Forum at Network54 say the Model 100 began sometime in the early 1980s just before Lear Siegler gained control of S&W.