S&W wartime revolver?

[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.

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[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.