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I have hunted Hard for a Four screw Pre-17 for a long time now and finally found the Right One to add to my S&W Revolver collection. The Four screw version K-22s that are not Model stamped 17 in their crane frame area are a Tough find. The reason for this is that S&W dropped the upper side plate screw on the Five screw versions sometime in late 1955 making all K-22s after that Four Screw variations, but in 1957 they started stamping all of their guns with model number's stamped into them and the K-22 got the Model 17 number assigned to it from there forward. That means in order to find a Pre-17 Four screw variation Non Model stamped K-22 Master piece they only had a less than Two year Production run of them leave the factory, and I was Pleased to locate this example.
I found this gun the day before Father's day so it was kind of a Father's Day present to myself. It shipped out of the Factory in June 1956 to the Shapleigh hardware store in St. Louis, MO which was a Huge S&W stocking Dealer back then and evidently was Logged into their inventory in July 1956 as the box bottom shows Being 55 Year's Ago.. From there it Laid around until April 11, 1958 as the sales slip shows it sold to a Doctor C. Marano for the Sum of $40.00. It came to me with it's original Box, Tools, and paperwork as shown and the Magna stocks shown on it are serial numbered to the gun.
It is out of my Current S&W Collecting Interest to purchase anything other than Five screw Pre-Model stamped S&W revolver's but since this was a Non-Model stamped Pre-17 and that it had such a short production run I felt it a worthy find to add to my others....The gun appears to have only Been Factory fired so the Good Doctor that originally purchased it must have been far too busy to enjoy it...Cheers, Hammer It.
I have hunted Hard for a Four screw Pre-17 for a long time now and finally found the Right One to add to my S&W Revolver collection. The Four screw version K-22s that are not Model stamped 17 in their crane frame area are a Tough find. The reason for this is that S&W dropped the upper side plate screw on the Five screw versions sometime in late 1955 making all K-22s after that Four Screw variations, but in 1957 they started stamping all of their guns with model number's stamped into them and the K-22 got the Model 17 number assigned to it from there forward. That means in order to find a Pre-17 Four screw variation Non Model stamped K-22 Master piece they only had a less than Two year Production run of them leave the factory, and I was Pleased to locate this example.
I found this gun the day before Father's day so it was kind of a Father's Day present to myself. It shipped out of the Factory in June 1956 to the Shapleigh hardware store in St. Louis, MO which was a Huge S&W stocking Dealer back then and evidently was Logged into their inventory in July 1956 as the box bottom shows Being 55 Year's Ago.. From there it Laid around until April 11, 1958 as the sales slip shows it sold to a Doctor C. Marano for the Sum of $40.00. It came to me with it's original Box, Tools, and paperwork as shown and the Magna stocks shown on it are serial numbered to the gun.
It is out of my Current S&W Collecting Interest to purchase anything other than Five screw Pre-Model stamped S&W revolver's but since this was a Non-Model stamped Pre-17 and that it had such a short production run I felt it a worthy find to add to my others....The gun appears to have only Been Factory fired so the Good Doctor that originally purchased it must have been far too busy to enjoy it...Cheers, Hammer It.
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