#SMITH AND WESSON MODEL 10 5 SERIAL NUMBER#
The serial number is less than halfway through the series (1948 to 1967) so I would guess closer to 1957 than 1961. With all that information, this revolver was made in or after 1957 and before the change to ‘three screw’ in 1961.
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That change was effected in 1952 (same source as above). This revolver has a ‘ramped’ front sight vice the ‘half moon’ or ‘round’ front sight of prior times. The grip adapter is the worst looking feature on the revolver. Not only that, but I found a Tyler T-grip (type at least) that fit as well. The Lord is good! In my vast collection of odds and ends, I found a set of diamond center stocks that fit! AND they are in rather decent shape! The serial number stamped within is again the wrong serial number, but at least they look correct and they are no more inauthentic than the ones replaced. The stocks on this revolver are not only incorrect for the period, they don’t quite fit exactly AND they have a different serial number stamped on the interior of the right grip. Additionally, some commie egg-sucking dog lost the original diamond centered stocks and installed a set of later, non-diamond stocks. This era of revolver (until 1967) should have ‘diamonds’ – unchecked section immediately surrounding the stock screw – stocks. The stocks (Smith & Wesson handguns do NOT have ‘grips’) are of the ‘magna’ style, offering a bit wider recoil profile in the web of the hand, but no filler in the gap behind the trigger guard. S&W started using model numbers instead of names in 1957. This revolver is marked “MOD-10” on the interior of the cylinder yoke. From the same source, this configuration was used by S&W from “about 1955” to “about 1961”. This revolver is a ‘four screw’ configuration (three screws holding on the side plate and one in the forward position of the trigger guard, holding the spring for the cylinder stop.
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The “C” prefix ran from March of 1948 to 1967, from 1 to 999,999. This is a “C” (serial number) prefix revolver. Also akin to the Passenger Pigeons and the American Bison, they are quite rare these days. Once so common they were reminiscent of Passenger Pigeons or the American Bison. This is the basic blue, four inch (pinned) barrel, six shot, fixed sight offering. 38 Special, “K” frame, Military & Police, Model 10 revolver. Early Smith & Wesson Model 10 with correct era stocks and grip adapter.Smith & Wesson.