Picked up a19-3
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Wondering when made and value, Thanks in advance!
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Riverboys
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Looks like it was carried a lot. Do you have any history?
Serial number?
Newbie
Sorry, no history. Been unfired in a private collection for several years. Looks to have been carried a lot, but forcing cone shows no evidence of ever being fired. Pretty clean weapon.
Sorry, no history. Been unfired in a private collection for several years. Looks to have been carried a lot, but forcing cone shows no evidence of ever being fired. Pretty clean weapon.
Not the serial number.
Either stamped in the bottom of the grip frame or in the frame underneath the barrel.
Frank237
Absent Comrade
LOL. Like trying to get a haircut online.
Inusuit
Member
If I'm reading the Standard Catalog of S&W 4th edition correctly, the 19-3 was made from 1967 to 1977. As Quikdraw67 noted, we need the serial number from the bottom of the grip to narrow down the date. You will need to remove the rubber grips to access the SN.
Even though it may not have been fired much, it shows a lot of wear and the does not have the original grips and apparently not the box or paperwork. I don't know how desirable the 6" barrel is or how that affects value. Just a ballpark estimate on my part, maybe $400-$450?
Even though it may not have been fired much, it shows a lot of wear and the does not have the original grips and apparently not the box or paperwork. I don't know how desirable the 6" barrel is or how that affects value. Just a ballpark estimate on my part, maybe $400-$450?
AtTheRange
Member
Finally pulled the grips! The frame serial number is: 4K70480
1974 for S/Ns
4K54105-4K99999
Hair Trigger
US Veteran
That looks too worn to never have been fired, and the forcing cone won't really tell you as much as a few other tell-tales. look at the front of the cylinder, there will be a faint burn ring around each chamber; not a carbon ring you can clean off, but a more permanent type, fairly thin, ring immediately next to the chamber opening. Look at the extractor star for wear; look at the recoil shield, or breech face, whatever it's called where the firing pin strikes the cartridge, you'll see a faint outline of a case head.
This is what unfired looks like:
