Let's see your Centennials/Models 40/42!

[Engine49guy]

Interesting how the 2 posted with serials under 400 have the first style non stepped flat latch.

I recently found one in the 1500 range same stepped flat latch as my 5000 range 1954 gun.

 

[Hondo44]

Interesting how the 2 posted with serials under 400 have the first style non stepped flat latch.

I recently found one in the 1500 range same stepped flat latch as my 5000 range 1954 gun.

Yes, but it's one of the most consistent inconsistencies we've learned about S&W guns. It's called "the bottom of the parts bin syndrome". By the time the Centennials were introduced Smith had changed to the 2nd style flat latch. They got dumped into the parts bins on top of the remainder of the 1st type latches. So by the time the assembler got back down to the remaining 1st type latches, the Centennials were higher up in their serial number range.

 

[Robinett_11B]

More! More!

 

[lawandorder]

Here is my meager contribution to the thread. I can not take a picture of ivory grips that show the color and grain.

 

[WB5MHA]

FWIW a friend offered to lend me "una pistola para tu seguridad" before a hike in the mountains in Costa Rica in 1988. Rough looking but shot fine when I tried it out.

Recently purchased one NIB, 1974 dated serial number. These are beautiful little Smiths. I won't photo mine. It looks like all the others.

 

[marinevet]

here's one....ANIB with all the goodies, plus a letter....1974....hope to pick up her twin....blue, shortly

 

[Lt JL]

Here's mine, a nickle model 40 no dash from 1953. It came in a silver box marked "Centennial"