Links to the letter request form are at the top of the forum in a sticky post. You can get an historian's letter from the S&W Historical Foundation after January 2022. So, if you want us to help you ID and date the gun, pictures will be helpful.īTW, S&W no longer provides a factory letter for a fee and they may give you a manufacturing date by phone that is incorrect unless the gun was recently manufactured. This is less of a problem if the gun was made after WWII when S&W began to put letters preceding the numbers on its commercial guns. So a K frame Military & Police revolver can have the same serial number as an I frame. While the serial numbers are important, identifying the model is also important because S&W overlapped serials among models. You can get it in digital form that you can put on a computer or smartphone for reference. Welcome to the forums from the Wiregrass, Scott! As cp1969 says, there are tables of manufacture dates in the Standard Catalog of S&W, 4th Edition, by Supica and Nahas.
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