Serial numbers for 1959 K22 Masterpiece manufacture

[digger59]

Can anyone help with identifying the serial number start an end range for K22 Masterpiece 22LR, manufacture year 1959?

 

[glowe]

Manufacturing Dates: K350548 - K386804 All calibers run in the same serial number range, K22, K32, and K38.

 

[digger59]

K22 -1959

Thank you, much, appreciate.

 

[Hawg Rider]

Welcome to the Forum, digger59! If I'm not mistaken, your 1959 K-22 should actually be model marked "Model 17" in the yoke when you rotate the cylinder out. S&W changed all of their revolver names (e.g. "K-22 Masterpiece") to model numbers (e.g. "Model 17") in 1957-58.

 

[jtcarm]

Welcome to the Forum, digger59! If I'm not mistaken, your 1959 K-22 should actually be model marked "Model 17" in the yoke when you rotate the cylinder out. S&W changed all of their revolver names (e.g. "K-22 Masterpiece") to model numbers (e.g. "Model 17") in 1957-58.

Hawg Rider is correct.

My birth year gun (1959) is a Model 17 “no dash”.

Why I needed a birth year gun, I don’t know, except everyone else seems to have at least one.

Thought I’d never find one, since the hacks seem to think no dash = gold plated.