Smith and Wesson serial number search

Lesgeaux - if I understand correctly it sounds like you have two different SNs stamped on the frame, and that's got me stumped. Jim, do you have any thoughts?
 
Jim, do you have any thoughts?
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I'm pretty sure the 3D----31651 are assembly and inspection numbers.
The number on the underside of the grip butt is the standard serial number location. During the 80's/90's S&W sometimes also stamped the SN in the yoke cutout location but it would have been a single line. That, and having two completely different SN's is very unlikely.

Jim
 
Hello Everyone,
I recently picked up a model 60-3 in great condition but without any of the original packaging or anything like that. I was hoping to get a little more info on the gun and it appears I have found the right place.
Serial # BEU52xx
Thanks in advance guys
 
Serial # BEU52xx
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Somewhere between Dec. 89 and Mar. 90.
The model 60 is built on the J frame and is the stainless version of the model 36. In 1996 S&W went to the J "magnum" frame and started chambering then in 357 magnum also.

Model 29-2, N 148237 and Model 27-3, AVA 5830
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N148237 = 1973.
AVA5830 = 1987.

Jim
 
Can someone please help date a Smith and Wesson pistol I got from my father, he's been dead about 25 years. It's a 38 Special, ser # 343xxx . Any help would be great.
 
It's a 38 Special, ser # 343xxx .
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With that caliber and serial number it's a .38 Military and Police Model of 1905 - 4th Change, one of the series of predecessors to what's now manufactured as the Model 10. Unfortunately, yours falls into a wide range of possible dates with insufficient information for exact dating: 1915 (at SN 241704) to 1942 (at SN 700000). You can interpolate with that information to get an approximate date, but it will only be approximate.

Your M&P, by the way, is close to the approximate SN at which heat-treating of cylinders began (316648), at which point the guns are supposedly safe to fire with .38 Special +P ammo. However, there's a lot of differing opinion on whether the early heat treating was really done properly, and although I'm no expert in this area I'd strongly advise against using +P in this gun, assuming that you're planning to fire it at all.
 
Have 3 to check
Model 29 ALB 40xx
Model 41 TBD64xx
Model 617 BHL41xx

Thank you for this great resource!
 
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manufacturing date .38 s&w

Hi. I recently traded my Jon boat for a couple of guns. I'd like to know when my nickel snub-nose s&w .38 special model 10-5. Thanks ahead of time for your response.
SN - C811xxx
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My commercial model 1917 S&W .45 acp revolver's serial number is...
193xxx

Can anyone tell me what year and perhaps what month it was made?
Thanks. Bill.

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My commercial model 1917 S&W .45 acp revolver's serial number is...
193xxx
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All the SCSW shows is SN 1 thru 169959 were made from Sep 1917 to Jan 1919 for the Army. From there thru 209791 were made up till 1946.
It does mention SN 180445 shipping in 1929 and a shipment in 1938 included SN's up to 207043.

Pricing, based on 2006, shows a range of $700 for Very Good, $1000+ for Excellent and $2000 in As New.
This assumes an all original unrefinished gun.

Jim
 
Hi folks. My buddy and I just came across an old .38 spl snub nose revolver made by S&W. We're trying to find out a little more about it.

When you open up the cylinder, inside you see what looks like "X6179".

Very faintly beneath that it looks like "A10".

The serial number on the butt of the gun is "D762XXX".

Can anybody tell us anything about this? What model is it? When was it made? Maybe about how much it would be worth?

Thanks in advance.
 
serial # search for model and year of handgun

Recently recieved a firearm that was found in a flooded out basement of an individuals father and through the rust I have a serial number but the actual make of the firearm is unreadable. Is it possible to correctly identify a gun by the serial number?
 
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