Letter came back today. Nothing special. It was part of a group of 320 revolvers sent to Arthur Cook Supply in Maryland. One other revolver was configured exactly like this one with TH,TT,TS and 6-1/2" barrel. Shipped in July 1966. Cost was $84.77. The good old days, right?

Just for reference I ran the $85 through a site to adjust for inflation. It comes up as $850 today, for reference.

Nice handgun.

There were (150) M36 Chiefs Specials and (65) M10s in the shipment both selling for $44 each.

I just sold a 27 no dash same package but the grips were the same but no thumb relief area , in gold sw box looked about 98 percent , oct 1958 gun just laid here for 15 yrs I never did a thing with it , sold it this week for 1000 bucks . think it was worth a little more but I made a little and he got a good buy . 6.5 inch barrel .

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
Just for reference I ran the $85 through a site to adjust for inflation. It comes up as $850 today, for reference.

I wonder if that was the wholesale/retailer's price. Regardless, lots of value for the money then. You can't get close to this quality of a revolver for $850 today.

Are the grips serialized to match?

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
Are the grips serialized to match?

I haven't pulled these but I have been told only the Magna grips got serials bucause they were fitted to the frame. Don't know if that is 100% true or not. I do know it left S&W with Target stocks, just not sure it was this pair.

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
Just for reference I ran the $85 through a site to adjust for inflation. It comes up as $850 today, for reference.

I wonder if that was the wholesale/retailer's price. Regardless, lots of value for the money then. You can't get close to

this quality of a revolver for $850 today

Yes, that was the cost to the retailer. The letter states there was also a excise tax of 10% added to each price. So $94 dollars for the M27. Then what ever markup that the retailer added would be the selling price.