Model 29-2 on 57 no dash frame??

[Model29-26.5]

I know a guy who has one of these.
I read recently on a post in the forum about a period with Smith Wesson were putting out 29 – twos with a 57 frame because they could not keep up with demand during the Dirty Harry craze.
With this make it more collectible?
Any more info on it would be great.
Thanks

 

[Truckman]

To someone who must have every variation - maybe...To other collectors - another maybe...How deep into trivia does your interest in .44 Magnums take you?......Ben

 

[19leben]

I would think that S&W would have restruck the model number 29-2 over the 57 so I don't think it'd be necessarily desireable from a strictly collecting aspect. Nothing that I'd pay extra for.

 

[22hipower]

There are many cases of re-stamping/over-stamping and mistake stamping. Unlike coins those don't really enhance the value, and generally don't reduce it either. Confuses us sometimes though.

Jeff
SWCA #1457

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Sounds historical in a sense, but I think I would rather have a 29. Some of the bluing on a few Model 57s are awesome I've seen. If it were only a mint stamp.

 

[Doc44]

The Model 29-2 and the Model 57 use the same frame. Usually, if a frame stamped MOD. 57 in the yoke cut was used for a Model 29-2, it was over stamped 29-2. These guns have no enhanced value or collectability.

Bill

 

[stansdds]

A Model 57 chambered in 44 Magnum could be a case of someone at S&W going too fast with fulfilling an order for Model 29's and not re-stamping the model number. They could just as easily be a case of a talented gunsmith swapping barrels and either swapping cylinders or rechambering the cylinder. Dirty Harry made for a crazy amount of demand for 6 1/2" barrel Model 29's.