S&W
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History and development of the Smith & Wesson Model 64 NY-1 family of revolvers contract produced for the NYPD
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The way the Rabbit Hole of my research works is like this: I start writing about something, I find a small item within that research that sends me off on a tangent, while on the tangent I find another small item and the next you know I’m researching Brooklyn mother-of-pearl manufacturers who contracted with S&W…
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I’ve been working on my Registered Magnum project (MAGOPUS) this past week. I managed to add 92 completed entries. A completed entry is one that has all available information on a gun as well as the file names that were the source of the data. This last point is very important, as it allows me…
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One of the guns that I had the most difficulty in finding for my collection of NYPD guns was a Smith & Wesson Terrier with the appropriate provenance. While I am confident that several thousand Terriers went to the Department, I can only find records for about 1,700. Once Chiefs Special’s came out, the days…
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When one looks at the entries in the Shipping Ledgers, it is very easy to overlook guns that may have a significant history. The Shipping Ledgers have, at different times, recorded different fields of information. As part of my NOVEMBERFRAME and MAGOPUS projects, I’m working right now in the pre-war N-frame revolver records. During this…
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Probably one of the most difficult New York City Police Department (NYPD) revolvers to lay one’s hands upon is a Trophy Gun. While the total number of revolvers purchased by the Department during the 20th century probably numbers slightly north of 100,000-125,000, only a small percentage were engraved as Trophy Guns. As the name implies,…