With the hammer and trigger and hopefully the ejector star being blue the chances are pretty darn good that it has the factory finish. Not sure about nickel but on the blued guns the bevel on the front end of the mushroom shaped ejector rod knob is left in the white.
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1920 round butt .38 Special M&P. Are there any markings on the gun to show originality of the nickel finish?
I know some of the blued guns have a B by the serial number on the bbl. This revolver has no markings.
All numbers match. Beautiful revolver. Big Larry
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I know some of the blued guns have a B by the serial number on the bbl. This revolver has no markings.
All numbers match. Beautiful revolver. Big Larry
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Smith and Wesson told me it was. I also have a 1967 Model 10-5 that is factory nickel with a different font for the N.
Looks more like a factory nickel mark. I have a couple factory renickel guns with the RN mark, but I knew this when I bought them. Looks like a factory letter is forthcoming. Nice pic of your late revolver. I have a 1980 nickel M25-5 that I am sure is factory. I will pull the stocks off and check it out. Thanks, Big Larry
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K22, the official word from Dr. Jinks, is that the original blued guns had a B preceding the serial number under the bbl. and the original nickel guns had no letter preceding the serial number, so if re nickeled over blue, you can tell right away. This is on early pre war guns WW1 and WW2. Big Larry
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