I like the Ladies of Smith and Wesson

[blanda1]

Took this pick a couple of weeks ago of my favorite ladies.....Let's see your favorite little ladies

 

[flagman1776]

All matching numbers including grips. Forcing cone is perfect. Nickle has light scratches... nothing considering the age of the piece. Chip out of 1 grip as shown. Hammer & trigger show nice case colors. Caliber is, of course, 22 S&W

Model M Second change s/n 4576 - 13,950. 9374 of second change produced between 1906-1909 inclusive.

 

[Hondo44]

Those are very nice!

Yes, we love the Ladies.

Ladysmith, 3rd Model - .22 Perfected, 2 ¼" barrel, a standard but rare length according to the SCSW. The barrel has not been modified.

 

[flagman1776]

Jim, love those grips!

 

[DWalt]

I seem to remember a link here to some article about Adolph Hitler having owned a Ladysmith revolver in his early post- WWI days, used by him in the Beer Hall Putsch, and possibly was involved in the mysterious death of his niece Geli Raubel.
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Here it is: http://www.germaniainternational.com/gunofdestiny.html

 

[rwsmith]

Do NOT.....

Do NOT let those end up in any 'gun buyback'.

 

[vonn]

Thanks all for the pics of not often seen lovely ladies.

 

[Model52guy]

Here's my third model, numbers matching (including the sights and grips), 6" target sight Ladysmith. I have sent for the Roy Jinks letter but have not yet received it for a ship date. Its as original with 95% finish remaining. This was a pawn shop rescue about 6 weeks ago.

 

[DCWilson]

I picked up a handful of these over the last five years with no real plan in mind; they were simply opportunities that I chose to explore. A couple of them were parts guns and one was literally a barreled frame plus a sack of pieces. Here are the more interesting ones.

This is 652, a First Model that is numbered lower than Adolf's heater. Not completely original, as the ejector rod drifted in from some other gun entirely.




1117, another First Model that appears to be completely original.




5356, a Second Model that has been refinished -- but in a responsible way.




9646, another Second Model with some mismatched parts. This one had absolutely a wrong mainspring in it that jammed the action when you tried to cock it or operate it in double action. I Dremeled it into a functional configuration and it now works.




And 23609, a Third Model Target that came to me with a broken and ineptly welded hand that would never work. I fed it an intact hand from one of the cannibal guns and it now works just fine.




Obviously not one of these guns is a collector grade item, but they all had something that made me think they deserved a second shot at life. All are in shooting condition now, and I have some CB caps that I will use when I get to the range again some day. It feels good to take a beater and make it work again.

 

[Hondo44]

Another of my smallest hand ejector S&Ws, a 3rd Model, next to one of the largest hand ejector S&W models of the same time period.

 

[rct269]

Yeah, but that big moth'a ain't no lady!!

Ralph Tremaine

 

[Hondo44]

LOL, no just an ugly old brute.

 

[Tom K]

Here's my third model, numbers matching (including the sights and grips), 6" target sight Ladysmith. I have sent for the Roy Jinks letter but have not yet received it for a ship date. Its as original with 95% finish remaining. This was a pawn shop rescue about 6 weeks ago.

That beauty came from a pawnshop? Amazing!

 

[mrcvs]

Here is a .22 Hand Ejector First Model in the 2,28X range:

 

[SW4006]

My Ladysmith, third model. It looks good, matching nr's. I think, the knob for opening the cilinder is not original. The colour is a little lighter. Also the screw above is lighter in colour. No idea if the blueing is original.
What is your opinion ?