Collecting s&w folding knives can be a real minefield The 5th edition is the most recent and is available on amazon. For years, taylor cutlery made the s&w knives and they would make 100s of different types & styles, from which s&w would select examples for production to be sold via the annual s&w accessory catalogs as official s&w factory knives
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The dozens of samples, all marked s&w not selected by s&w for factory sales, were dumped on the 2ndary.
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Box the box is the usual blue hard case with foam padding This case does not and did not support the pistol adequately during transit but luckily this did not harm the pistol The book standard catalog of smith & wesson has a number of pages that list serial numbers by model and year of production It is not fully complete, but most revolvers are listed.
Except in very few cases, actual production dates by serial number are not available Approximate production dates for postwar guns have been published, most notably in the standard catalog of smith & wesson
