He handed it back gently. “You don’t have an old gun. You have a time capsule from the last years when a master revolver was built one at a time. The serial number is its birth certificate — and yours says 1968, Springfield, Massachusetts, made by men who cared about the click of a cylinder stop.”
The woman slipped the little Kit Gun back into her purse, but before she left, she asked, “Will it still shoot?” smith and wesson 34-1 serial numbers
The woman leaned closer. “So the M prefix…?” He handed it back gently
“The dash-one means ‘engineering change number one,’” he said. “In this case, the change was the frame itself. Your father’s gun was made after 1960 but before 1969, when they changed the extractor rod.” but before she left