Help With Dating a Model 37 Airweight

[TomJohn]

I need some help finding the shipping date of a model 37 (no dash) Airweight. 3-screw, 1&3/4" barrel, no barrel pin, serial # AAM11xx (x's mine). Thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Lonestar57]

I need some help finding the shipping date of a model 37 (no dash) Airweight. 3-screw, 1&3/4" barrel, no barrel pin, serial # AAM11xx (x's mine). Thanks in advance for any assistance.

It's a 1983.

 

[TomJohn]

Thank you very much!

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Most interesting serial number.

S&W Historian Dr. Roy Jinks said AAM1839 was the "first J-frame stamped with the new serial series."

 

[badge 851]

I need some help finding the shipping date of a model 37 (no dash) Airweight. 3-screw, 1&3/4" barrel, no barrel pin, serial # AAM11xx (x's mine). Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Wouldn't that be a 1⅞" barrel?