May 13-15, 2025 Firearms and Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/13/2025
The factory letter states this was a shipment of eight guns with special blue and nickel finish sent to Rex Firearms of New York City on May 25th, 1954, all with 4" barrels, fixed sights, round blade front sight, and checkered walnut grips. The proper era gold box reads "1926 Model .44 Military Revolver" with blue finish listed on box with 4" barrel length. The letter calls this the Special Finish .44 Hand Ejector Third Model of 1950. Built on the square butt, N frame, 5-screw with pinned barrel and case color hammer and trigger. Cylinder and barrel are factory nickel, balance is blue, and are referred to by collectors as a Pinto Model. Matching serial number on cylinder and barrel. The letter states that eight were shipped but this cataloger could find no recent sale of another example of this scarce special finish model. Pinto finish guns are rare but never seen in the large N frame models. CONDITION: Excellent. Cylinder shows no signs of face burn or powder residue build up at forcing cone and retains virtually all of it's original finish with usual handling marks found on nickel finish. All legends are sharp. The excellent Smith & Wesson grips were replaced, not numbered to gun, but are the correct style and era. Action is fine. Bore is bright. Case colors are strong. One of the hardest to find of all post war N frame Smiths.
Manufacturer
Smith and Wesson