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I have an old square butt .38 special on a K frame with 4 side plate screws, 1 screw on the front of the trigger guard, and 1 screw on the "front strap?" IDK if that's correct terminology, but it's the screw giving tension to spring under grips. No markings on side with thumb latch release, and large S&W trademark Logo on side plate. Along with "MADE IN U.S.A." ONLY under cylinder infront of side plate. I've included pictures with last 2 digits of serial numbers marked out. From what I could find having the S stamped in front of puts it between 1945-1948, but because the S is so far in front of the serial number I wasn't so confident in my search results. Obviously the grips are not original. This is how I purchased for $200 and was thinking of stripping, polishing, and rebluing, so if anyone knows the type of process they used to blue this wheel gun that would also be helpful. Thank you