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Hey, seems like a lot of you know your guns. Grandpa had this five shot 38 short colt when he was a train conductor out West, Southern Black Hills area. Guess ten years either way of 1900. My brother got it and I got the Winchester Model 1897 12 Ga. 30" barrel
I had looked before but never found anything on it Here is what my brother was able to read of the pistol.
"The numbers on the butt end of the gun were easy to read: 13818
Across the sight line of the gun, the numbers were degraded. Here are the easiest ones to read:
Smith and Wesson
Springfield MASS USA
Model of 91
Harder to read info:
Pat/D APR 20.7 (or Y)5.FEB
20 (unreadable portion) DEC (possibly) 1877MAY1180"
Dave
I had looked before but never found anything on it Here is what my brother was able to read of the pistol.
"The numbers on the butt end of the gun were easy to read: 13818
Across the sight line of the gun, the numbers were degraded. Here are the easiest ones to read:
Smith and Wesson
Springfield MASS USA
Model of 91
Harder to read info:
Pat/D APR 20.7 (or Y)5.FEB
20 (unreadable portion) DEC (possibly) 1877MAY1180"
Dave