Not sure this is a fatal flaw- it was a cut and paste error which has been corrected now
Box label data is important because it provides a bases for validation of the presented information with S&W.
I have seen found the two listing and contacted my contact at S&W.
He finally got back with me and says he seems to recall John returned 9 or 11 revolver which did not meet his specifications and were replaced with new guns. AS he recollected most of them were two tone but also a couple of glass beaded (remember this was about 15 years ago.
AS S&W does not restamp SNs (due to ATF rules) the replaced new guns received the next SN in Johns specified format.
The returned guns were destroyed per S&W policy.
He was not able to tell me what SNs were replaced.
Total of produced guns delivered to John was 250 each version.
Johns paper explains the reasons for his choices and even discusses the SN prefix- everyone interested in 500 S&W should read it.
Since Johns passing his website is no longer up but a link to the paper was posted by 4K2022 in an above post in this thread.
