$425 is the best price I have found.
Blocks the hammer from hitting the firing pin.
82
have a gunsmith do it to avoid damage to gun
Model name = Bodyguard; 5 shots, shrouded hammer, 38 Spl
100-400 or so
No way to know. Call S&W and they can tell you when it was shipped. It could have been in the warehouse for weeks or months.Your Smith and Wesson model 49 bodyguard was made after 1962(ser# 295,000) and before 1969(ser# 786,544).I would say that 1963-1964 would be the correct year of manufacture.
A shotgun made for Smith and Wesson, sold under the Smith and Wesson name.
Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson
The Wesson part of Smith and Wesson.
Smith and Wesson will tell you if you call them
Horace Smith, Daniel Wesson