Final Proof or Serial Number - which first?

[DonVoigt]

This is not a good example to question, as it is a commercial receiver later modified by the police with a the partial serial added to the receiver. The added numbers were clearly added over the Navy marking, but then the Navy was a complete finished and used pistol before the police got it!

Edited. Sorry for dumb mistake.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

This is not a good example to question, as it is a Navy receiver...

Isn't the C/N a commercial receiver???

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

Isn't the C/N a commercial receiver???

Looks to me like a Pentagonal Crown over N, of the Imperial Navy.

EXCUSE me- mind bubble- it is an N not an M- I could not see the N for wanting it to be an M!
Mea culpa!

Anyway, still not a good example as the left chamber number was added much later, as you now know- along with the numbers added to the outside of the side plate and take down lever.

[Kyrie]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

This is not a good example to question, as it is a Navy receiver later modified by the police with a the partial serial added to the receiver. The added numbers were clearly added over the Navy marking, but then the Navy was a complete finished and used pistol before the police got it!

May I ask what it is that leads you to believe the frame is a Navy frame?