Identify the gun in this neat old photo

[twaits]

Click on this link and then click "view full size"

The Smoking Gun: 1923 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

This is a great old photo. Isn't that an old M&P?
The guy getting shot certainly has some balls!
He's even smiling a little

 

[deadin]

If it's a S&W, it's a M1899. (no barrel lug) otherwise it's probably a Colt of some ilk. Looks like they were also using a BP load.

 

[153]

Looks like a 4" M&P to me. Could not see any medallions on the grips, probably a 1920's revolver?

 

[diamonback68]

I'd plank my money down on a 4" Military&Police.

 

[mikepriwer]

The extractor rod looks disproportionately too long, to me. Also the
cylinder release looks more like a Colt, than a S&W, although I can't
get enough clarity on that part of the picture.

Later, Mike Priwer

 

[twaits]

The profile is more S&W than Colt. I think I can see the thumbpiece.
I think the ejector rod looks about right. The camera is pretty far from the gun so it may seem a little distorted. I'm with Diamonback on this one

Here's another one. Click "full size view" on this one too. Can you spot the S&W?

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5004

There's also a colt 1903 or '08 pocket hammerless there. I don't know what the other automatic is.
I wish X-mas displays were still like this!!

 

[digi-shots]

Cool pic!!

I see the S&W revolver, the Colt 1903 and the semi-auto...

Could the semi be a S&W model 35, or maybe a Remington or a Savage??

Edited... not a Savage (they don't have a grip screw, they slide off), not a S&W 35 either, they have 2 screws).

 

[Dan Cash]

Is that a Savage auto pistol under the S&W's grip?

 

[Pontiaker]

Guys if you click on the pic it gets bigger and its easy to see its a S&W, it does have the barrel lug, you just cant really see the break between it and the ejector rod.... Looks like a 1905 square butt 4 inch .38....

 

[David LaPell]

The thumbpiece looks more like a Colt than a Smith, and the front sight looks like those on the very early Official Police revolvers.

 

[gunlovingirl]

Love that old storefront pic! Thanks!

 

[DCWilson]

If that's a K-frame, this guy has a promising second career as a stride piano player. Look how far around the stocks his fingers come, and yet his thumb still manages to stretch forward past the back of the cylinder.

On the other hand, if that's a .32 Regulation Police...

 

[R Cubed]

I'll take the train set - Could be worth retirement ... it could happ'n

The profile is more S&W than Colt. I think I can see the thumbpiece.
I think the ejector rod looks about right. The camera is pretty far from the gun so it may seem a little distorted. I'm with Diamonback on this one

Here's another one. Click "full size view" on this one too. Can you spot the S&W?

Shop Early for Xmas: 1921 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

There's also a colt 1903 or '08 pocket hammerless there. I don't know what the other automatic is.
I wish X-mas displays were still like this!!

 

[Pontiaker]

If that's a K-frame, this guy has a promising second career as a stride piano player. Look how far around the stocks his fingers come, and yet his thumb still manages to stretch forward past the back of the cylinder.

On the other hand, if that's a .32 Regulation Police...

I pulled out my 1905 with the same grips and my hand looks exactly the same as this guys hand in the same grip position....

 

[gunsmith11]

I am wondering who the dumb s*** is standing there getting shot

 

[deadin]

The auto under the S&W's grip looks like a Mauser M1910.

 

[SDH]

I am wondering who the dumb s*** is standing there getting shot

They are both wearing vests, probably took turns shooting each other!

 

[DCWilson]

I pulled out my 1905 with the same grips and my hand looks exactly the same as this guys hand in the same grip position....

Then YOU have a future as a piano man!

Actually, now that I look at the shooter's left hand as well, it seems to me this guy just has big hands. Bigger than mine, to be sure. I have to grab an I-frame if I want my hand to engulf the grip the way this guy's hand does. No way I can do that with a K frame or larger.

 

[2152hq]

The auto under the S&W's grip looks like a Mauser M1910.

It does look like one of the Mauser auto pistols.
On the left end of the window display are an AH Fox shotgun plus another SxS partially hidden that looks like it also could be a Fox. Both guns non-ejector & probably Sterlingworth models.
The BB-gun in military garb is interesting. Is the bayonet a true part of it or just for the display?
On the other end is a Winchester 22 pump,,a 1906 model I think.

Looks like it'd been a real interesting place to spend some time and money in.

 

[oldman2]

smoking gun

Thats a colt , look at the cylinder latch.