Smith & Wesson 1857-1945 Handbook

[grizz700]

So I was helping my Son and his wife move from one ranch to another and as we were moving boxes my DIL ask if I would like the box of books. The book in question is a 1975 edition of Robert J. Neal and Roy G. Jinks book on Smith and Wesson 1857-1945 handbook for Collectors. It is a very interesting read.

 

[handejector]

That book and that edition is the foundation of a good S&W library. Is it the Barnes printing?

 

[gmarshall99]

I ave one and it's a R&R Books 1996 edition.

 

[rct269]

Our fearless leader might well have said that book is THE foundation of a good S&W library. Jinks' History of Smith & Wesson is the rest of the foundation. Moving beyond the foundation gets you into that which treats all that came after---the Standard Catalog series---which treats with the foundation as well---but you already have that if you've been afflicted with the disease long enough.

Then there's a bunch of others that take up about three feet of the bottom shelf of my bookcase---but all that comes with too much time fooling with all this stuff!


I go to the foundation first, because that covers most everything in which I have any interest----late 1870's through the mid 1950's. Before and after is uncharted territory--especially the after.

Ralph Tremaine

 

[wlw-19958]

Hi There,


I picked up a copy of this a long time ago. Sometime in the 1980's.
Mine is the A. S. Barnes & Co. "revised edition" published in 1975.


Cheers!
Webb

 

[grizz700]

That book and that edition is the foundation of a good S&W library. Is it the Barnes printing?

Yes it is.

 

[rct269]

Our cleaning lady comes every other week. I am informed of this every time by the Boss Lady, because the floor in front of the bookcase is littered with gun books I've found it necessary to have out-----never mind they didn't get put back when I was finished with them. I mean, if I'd put them back right away, I'd just have to get them back out again----sometimes even on the same day!

It never fails but that both of these "foundation" books are among those covering up the floor---they're good stuff!!

Ralph Tremaine