S&W left hand model

[glowe]

I have to ask - what is a Grade 4?

 

[Muley Gil]

I have to ask - what is a Grade 4?

IIRC, it is a highly engraved model.

 

[s&wchad]

I have to ask - what is a Grade 4?

The grade IV is quite scarce. They were similar to the Belgian grade III's with an engraved coin finish receiver, but the animals were done in gold.

Browning is currently offering a grade VI, which has a blued or silver receiver and gold washed critters. I'd take a Belgian gr III over the current gr VI any time.

 

[silverstateS&W]

the old pachmayr red and white grip box had a left handed S&W on it for years...

 

[gwpercle]

And the fact that men's clothing always buttons left side over right...

My mom , a seamstress , had an easier way of explaining it to me , when you slip a shirt on the buttons will be on you right hand
side and the holes will be on your left... If the buttons and holes are reversed ... take it off ...it's your sisters shirt .

She made most of our clothes when we were younger .
I never could figure out why they buttoned that way but didn't worry about such things back then .
Gary

 

[mikepriwer]

It's no problem at all to flip an image. My picture viewer has that option. Here is a 1940 .38 M&P in its correct position:

and here it is flipped.

Regards, Mike Priwer

 

[nicky4968]

Mens shirts buttons are on the right so you can unbutton them quickly with your left hand while you draw your sword.
Womens shirts button are on the left so the maid can more easily handle them as she is dressing you.

 

[Absalom]

It's no problem at all to flip an image. My picture viewer has that option ...

... and I'm pretty sure the layout person who composed that collage did precisely that when he decided he wanted the gun oriented that way; much easier than go look for another picture. Competently done in that he extended the realistic shadow effect of the trigger guard over the correctly oriented historic photos.

 

[scooter123]

Mens shirts buttons are on the right so you can unbutton them quickly with your left hand while you draw your sword.
Womens shirts button are on the left so the maid can more easily handle them as she is dressing you.

I always thought that womens clothes button up the way they do to make it easier for men to get them unbuttoned.

 

[gwpercle]

It's no problem at all to flip an image. My picture viewer has that option. Here is a 1940 .38 M&P in its correct position:

and here it is flipped.

Regards, Mike Priwer

The real tricky part would be getting that pesky hang tag in the
"flipped " photo back to it's legible state...the backwards writing is a dead give away ... Can it be easily done ?

Gary

 

[mikepriwer]

Gary

The tedious part of flipping is having to patch up any letters/numbers, that will be backwards. Here is a close-up of the roll marking on the barrel of the flipped image.

Now, I could patch this up by copying that roll marking from the correct image, and pasting it over the backward image.

Regards, Mike

 

[mikepriwer]

Here is a patched-up image, in which the roll marking is now correct.

There is a light-induced coloring difference along the high-center-line of the barrel, such that the frame end is darker than the muzzle end. in the hands of someone more expert than I am, at coloring, the bluing could be made even along the length of the barrel!

Regards, Mike Priwer

 

[PALADIN85020]

"Photoshopping" by flipping an image can be advantageous under many circumstances. I've always loved the E-type Jaguars, but wanted a picture of one with left-side controls that had been offered for American usage. I found a nice photo of a restored 1965 Jag, with the steering wheel on the right side. It was easy enough to flip it and "Americanize" it.

I also wish that I had a digital camera back when I owned a very nice '65 Stingray, but I recently found a photo of an exact duplicate. Using software, I could even give it a license plate that reflected the one I had on it at the time - in the late '60s and early '70s. Don't believe all you see in photos today!

John