“That’s the serial number,” the woman said. “What does it tell you?”
The woman leaned closer. “So the M prefix…?” smith and wesson 34-1 serial numbers
He handed it back gently. “You don’t have an old gun. You have a time capsule from the last years when a master revolver was built one at a time. The serial number is its birth certificate — and yours says 1968, Springfield, Massachusetts, made by men who cared about the click of a cylinder stop.” “That’s the serial number,” the woman said
She wanted to know its story.