Radagast
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smithscott:
You have a .38 Military & Police Postwar, manufactured in the period 1948 to 1951. Serial range for those years was C1 to C223998, so 1948 or early 1949 seems likely.
The grips are almost certainly aftermarket and are probably plastic, there was a brand of fake mother of pearl grips, Franzite, that was very popular in the 1950s. '
Detroit Police xxxxx was a marking used on guns in the sixties and seventies, I would not be surprised if it dates back earlier and the stampings are correct.
You have a .38 Military & Police Postwar, manufactured in the period 1948 to 1951. Serial range for those years was C1 to C223998, so 1948 or early 1949 seems likely.
The grips are almost certainly aftermarket and are probably plastic, there was a brand of fake mother of pearl grips, Franzite, that was very popular in the 1950s. '
Detroit Police xxxxx was a marking used on guns in the sixties and seventies, I would not be surprised if it dates back earlier and the stampings are correct.