Serial Number

[zephyr654]

Can anyone help me identify when this S&W K 38 combat master piece was manufactured - SN# S927XXX?
It has a 6" barrel and is a 5 screw. Believed to be pre-1950...

 

[505Gibbs]

Can anyone help me identify when this S&W K 38 combat master piece was manufactured - SN# S927XXX?
It has a 6" barrel and is a 5 screw. Believed to be pre-1950...

I think you have a typo in the S/N!
Do you mean S297xxx?
if yes, then its mid '67.

 

[Nframe_is_no1]

To the best of my knowledge, K38 Combat Masterpieces never used S serial numbers. The adjustable sight K-frames all used K prefix serial numbers. That number is not from a K38.

 

[Alk8944]

If the SN is correct then your gun is a 1948 Military & Police. The Combat Masterpiece has adjustable sights, yours does not. Only the early post WWII K-frame M&Ps and later N-Frame revolvers ever had the S prefix.

505gibbs,

"Do you mean S297xxx? if yes, then its mid '67." If it was then his gun would be an N-frame of some flavor, not a Combat Masterpiece!

 

[laytonj1]

S927XXX = 1948.
It would be a .38 Military & Police (pre model 10).

I think you have a typo in the S/N!
Do you mean S297xxx?
if yes, then its mid '67.

That would be correct for a "N" frame but his is a "K" frame.

Jim

 

[g8rb8]

Can anyone help me identify when this S&W K 38 combat master piece was manufactured - SN# S927XXX?
It has a 6" barrel and is a 5 screw. Believed to be pre-1950...

It's possibly a .38 Special M&P Postwar.
1945-1948: S811338 - S999999
Please post pictures.

"Combat" usually refers to a 4" barrel. Masterpiece usually refers to a revolver with adjustable sight. Does it have an adjustable rear sight?

 

[zephyr654]

Thanks for the response - here is a photo of the S&W that I'm looking for the year of manufacture.

SN # S927343

 

[murphydog]

A .38 Military & Police, likely from 1947.

 

[Art Doc]

Yup. A 6" Military & Police (M&P for short) from right after the war. After a few changes around 1950 it becomes the Model 10 in 1957.