S&W Pre-'57 .22 Help I.D.

MrM1A1

Hi guys, just wondering what model this S&W .22 is, as the model is not marked on the gun. It has a 4-screw frame, diamond grips with 2 screws, adj. rear sights, 6 shot cylinder, 5" pinned bbl, the serial is on the front strap of the grip frame #4279xx, screw in front of trigger gaurd(maybe 5-screw??), patent dates on top of bbl. Sorry the pics are kind of grainy, but any help on the model would be great. Thanks in advance!![;)]

rufe-snow

It looks like what is called a "Bekart", ( don't know if I spelled the name correctly?), model built on the "I" frame.

Try GOOGLEing, "Smith & Wesson Bekart Model", and see what you come up with.

I dug up my copy of SCSW, the proper way to spell the name of the first dealer to order this .22 target revolver, is Bekeart. The picture in SCSW shows a Bekeart type revolver with a different appearing grip then yours. Your grip may or may not be factory original?

Hawk Carse

You have a .22-32 Target Model, likely from the WW I era. Forty years later it would become the Model 35, but before 1957, Smith & Wesson revolvers had names, not numbers.

Only the first production run ordered by Phil Bekeart of San Francisco are properly known as the Bekeart Model. Is there a number on the bottom of the grip?
There are a lot of fine little collectors' minutae over the little guns that I don't know or care much about... but you have a fine revolver.

perry shooter

WOW great pistol Hawk has it pegged.

MrM1A1

Thanks guys. Much appreciated!![;)] I had no idea it was that early, though the last patent date is 1905, so I figured it was pretty old. Thanks again!!