S&W wartime revolver?

[old tanker]

I wonder if it was grabbed up as a pilot's revolver? Aircrew? It doesn't have the "US Property" marking on the top strap?

No it doesn't have the 'US Property" mark on the top strap or GHD inspection stamp you would expect to see on a Lend Lease gun. The "Made in USA" stamped on the right side of the frame is post-1922. It has the large S&W logo on the right places between 1936 and the beginning of the war. .38 S&W was a standard chambering but surpassed in popularity in the .38 Special in the US by then. Leads me to suspect it was a private purchase.

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[browningautorifle]

a private purchase.

Maybe, after all Goering had one. Vids show clearly when he surrenders a four inch bbl M&P. They were out there for sure.

[old tanker]

Maybe, after all Goering had one. Vids show clearly when he surrenders a four inch bbl M&P. They were out there for sure.

It has no military acceptance marks I can see, which I presume is evidence it was not purchased by the BCP at the beginning of the war. Had it entered commercial channels before the war or was sold through The Army & Navy Co-operative Society should it not bear pre-war British proofs? The Birmingham proofs look to be post 1954 and the lack of US import marks suggest its arrival in the US pre-1968.

It does not look like it spent the last eighty years in a sock drawer.