G10 stamped on crane/yoke of 1981 S&W

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Carmady

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G10 is stamped on the part of the crane/yoke that swings out with the cylinder.

4XX4X is stamped below that, but the font is smaller and it looks much neater, as if it was done by a machine.

The G10 looks like it may have been stamped by hand.

I searched "G10 crane" and "G10 yoke," but got no hits.

Anyone know what the G10 means?
 
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Carmady

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I think the markings on the grip frame are assembly numbers.

The first search was limited to this forum.

Checking the www returned some stuff, two I read from the S&W Forum where one G10 sighting was on a 15-3 from 1968, and another on 29-3.

I guess G10 might mean something to someone, but it doesn't seem to create much excitement otherwise.
 
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jar

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It really wouldn't mean much in general since that type of stamping was solely for internal parts and inspector tracking. It could be an inspectors stamp, a station stamp, a machine stamp or any of dozens of other in-house markings. A classic example would be stamp and die markings that are used during inspections to gauge when a part is so worn it need to be replaced or a stamp to show who did a particular task.

Also remember that S&W went through a bunch of reorganizations, different ownership as well as several down-sizing exercises. With each one institutional knowledge was lost. The folk that knew what such markings meant retired and old records got recycled into MacDonald's Happy Meal boxes.
 
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Nick_C_S

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Just for fun, I looked at three of my Smith revolvers from 1984 (it was a good year for gun purchases ;)).

686: "A18" and "3x772"
629: "B19" and "48x41"
60: "(nothing)" and "8285x"

Not to mention the "S's" stamped in various places, meaning "stainless."
 
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