Identify Please

[FrozenTundra]

Rich, thanks for following up. Finding out that this gun letters with an original six-inch barrel rather than the four-inch barrel I suspected introduces a new note of uncertainty into my Kit Gun research. If some of the guns produced with numbers in what I thought were Kit Gun-only serial number blocks were actually Heavy Frame Targets, there may be fewer Kit Guns than I thought there were.

Again, I appreciate the new and extremely relevant information.

Thanks for all the help and info you and Masterpiece provided, on this one and countless others.
I thought you guys would like to see the letter.

 

[Masterpiece]

Hi Rich,

Imagine that, I was just thinking about you the other day wondering if Your Letter was ever going to arrive & here you are!!...Thanks for posting the Letter!! Sorry to see it didn't turn out to be a Pre-War Kit Gun though...your luck must run like mine...Ha!!~Ha!!

One interesting thing though, I have a "First Production Run" .22/32 Heavy Frame Target and/or .22/32 "Bekeart" Model (#707) that shipped to E.K.Tryon Co. here in Pennsylvania as well...only thing mine shipped just a bit earlier (26 yrs)...Aug.1st,1911!!

Hope you're no too disappointed it didn't end up starting out life as a Pre-War Kit-Gun, but at least now you know what you have...Time To Start Looking For A Barrel...Ha!!~Ha!!!!

 

[D R Greysun]

I would have bet odds on 530768 as being the serial no! :-(

D R

 

[Masterpiece]

Finding out that this gun letters with an original six-inch barrel rather than the four-inch barrel I suspected introduces a new note of uncertainty into my Kit Gun research. If some of the guns produced with numbers in what I thought were Kit Gun-only serial number blocks were actually Heavy Frame Targets, there may be fewer Kit Guns than I thought there were.

David,

As soon as I saw how Rich's Revolver "Lettered", you were the first person I thought of & wondered how much of an affect that information was going to have on your Pre-War Kit-Gun Research...Now I Know!! And so goes the Old S&W Adage...Ya' Just Never Know For Sure 'Til The Letter Arrives...Ha!!~Ha!!