Understanding a Letter

[flundertaker]

Received a SWHF letter this week and need some help understanding a couple points it containes. This pertains to a 1962 ship date Model 27.
1. “6.5” ribbed barrel with ramp front sight.”
The flyer Don included shows 5 different type sights all shown and listed as on a ramp base. Which actual front sight does this letter indicate? Ribbed - checkered, same thing?
2. “Checkered square butt stocks with silver Smith & Wesson medallions”.
Would this mean a diamond magna stocks were used?
3. “The invoice does not show this revolver having a target trigger or a target hammer when shipped in 1962.”
Does this mean it definitely did not or does it mean the invoice simply doesn’t specify?

 

[Alk8944]

What Don meant is the sight is set on a ramp on top of the rib, not the shape of he sight. The most common front sight for a 6 1/2" Model 27 would be the Patridge style. If the shipping records don't show a different style this should be the sight the gun has.

 

[flundertaker]

What Don meant is the sight is set on a ramp on top of the rib, not the shape of he sight. The most common front sight for a 6 1/2" Model 27 would be the Patridge style. If the shipping records don't show a different style this should be the sight the gun has.

Thank you sir. That’s what it has.
1 down, 2 to go.

 

[Nightowl]

Unless it was a special order, Model 27s normally shipped with the Magna stocks and standard trigger and hammer in a cardboard box, until September 1975. Then they went full target and shipped with a wood presentation box.

So I would read your letter as meaning that the gun shipped with standard hammer and trigger and Magna stocks. Perhaps it has a target trigger and hammer now?

 

[Doc44]

If the Model 27 shipped with a target hammer and trigger they would be listed on the invoice. Factory letters should be self-explanatory and not require interpretation or guesswork. I believe Don was trying to be helpful, but sometimes providing too much information can be confusing.

Bill

 

[Truckman]

If the Model 27 shipped with a target hammer and trigger they would be listed on the invoice.

Yes, as an example the letter from Don for my 1958 shipped, 6 1/2" 27 shows the details as it was shipped...When my newly requested letter arrives for its plainer featured 6" brother, I expect the letter will be worded similar to the OP's letter... ...Ben

 

[flundertaker]

Thanks for all the feedback. Any confusion is 100% on my end. Don did a super job as usual getting the letter sent quickly, once we sorted out my issues.
For clarification, diamond magnas would be the version used in ‘62 and up til ‘68 iirc?
Also what SN did the 4 screw become the 3 screw?
Thanks again.

 

[Doc44]

Directives to eliminate the diamond around the escutcheon and nut on Magna stocks were issued on October 11, 1965, and January 11, 1966, and marked the beginning of the change to the "modern" style of stocks without the diamond. Stocks without the diamond were first seen on models with the highest production numbers like the Model 10 and later for other models. The change to the 3-screw frame for N-frame revolvers is first seen at approximately serial number S227150. The Directive to eliminate the diamond on KT and NT stocks was issued on December 28, 1967, and took about a year to exhaust the supply of diamond target stocks.

Bill