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    Re: lc smith featherweight Archived Message

    Posted by David W on October 25, 2007, 4:11 pm, in reply to "Re: lc smith featherweight"

    Roger your serial number dates it to 1920. At this time there were both the FW (Featherweight frame) and the R (Regular frame) guns.
    The Featherweight guns like stated have 2 screws on one side of the lock plates and 1 on the other side, whereas the Regular frame only has 1 screw on the one side and none on the other. The lug that protrudes through the receiver is also longer on the R frame, 1 3/16" long x 1/2" wide. On the Featherweight the lug is 11/16" long and 3/8" wide.
    I believe Gunparts (Numrich) that they only have the FW parts.
    I have a 1946 L.C. Smith FW S1825 that doesn't have any markings on the top of the barrels only has L.C. Smith stamped into the side plates
    Also when the S prefix started they only made Featherweights.


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