Sweet old revolver. Real nice, love to find one those myself.

 

Interesting to know that the postal workers were packin’

 

Interesting to know that the postal workers were packin'

I worked for USPS and retired recently. One of the guys I knew when I was young and rising thru the ranks used to work on the trains sorting mail as it was being carried across the country. He told me he used to pack a revolver.

 

Very nice! I have only handled 1 of those personally and a good friend of mine bought it for $300! Best I recall he sold it for somewhere close to $1500 and that was about 10 years ago. It was just like new, and I seem to recall he got it lettered by Mr. Jinks from S&W before he sold it.

 

That’s one I don’t have. I’ve never had the chance to pick one up for reasonable money.

 

Great gun and very rare to boot.

That is a great looking gun. Lucky to have one in my family as well. Ours was a real stumper as it's pre 54 so no model number on the frame took us a while to figure out what it was. Good shooting guns absolute perfect to work with new shooters.

 

One of my grail guns.

 

Most small PO's had a revolver in the safe. I saw the one in my Dad's PO many times, I was just a kid though but recall my Dad saying it was a ".38 Smith & Wesson". He worked for Railway Express for a while before WW II. The agents that traveled with the car usually had firearms. Prior the the GCA of 1968 most firearms were shipped via REA.

The Model 45's were used as training revolvers for the USPS Postal Inspector service.

 

thats a beauty , id be proud of it as well