#368 - S&W K-32 Masterpiece

 I've been looking for one of these for a while...It's not NIB, but very clean and well loved...It does however have what I believe is the original box and aluminum cleaning rod...The S/N originally written in grease pencil on the bottom of the box is long gone, but it came with the gun and I have no reason to believe it is not original...

The stocks however, although being the correct era Magnas, were numbered to another gun...This gave me the opportunity to use a pair of Curt Harlow's creations...He carved these from Black Walnut in the Kearsarge pattern, and other than the square butt K-frame he uses to test fit stocks, they had never been mounted to any gun...

The S&WHF letter of authenticity tells that it shipped 11/14/1956 to Stoeger arms in NYC...The original invoice is also included in this collection...

#367 - S&W .32 Hand Ejector

This little cutie was liberated from the grasp of a friend who didn't realize what he had...It was manufactured during the Korean War when when brass and nickel supplies were diverted to war production...The choices of materials for the stock medallions for S&W production was stainless steel or plastic...Plastic was the cheaper choice, so guess which one S&W chose for the majority of their production...But there were a number of stock medallions made of stainless steel, and this survivor is one of them!...

All numbers match including the R/H stock panel which verifies this gun is 100% original...There are no rework marks...I'll update the article with any provenance that surfaces...