No such serial number for a Model 17
Basically impossible to tell a model from just the serial number.
@1972
Your serial number indicates that your Smith and Wesson model 59 was made from 1976-1977.The serial number range for that time was A295,001-A385,000.I can say that with your serial number I would place production in the year 1977.
The year of manufactur is 1986. Denoted by the first two digits of the serial number. Production of this model ceased in 1987.
What serial?
The smith and Wesson model 6906 was made from 1988-1999.I am afraid that is the best I can do.You may want to contact smith and Wesson and see if they can be more accurate in terms of a production date.
dan wesson model 163305
The original question was about a S&W MODEL 3914 with a serial number of TEC0486, which would have been manufactured c.1990 at the beginning of that model's production. sales@countrygunsmith.net
I cannot assign a year of manufacture without you providing a serial number to your Smith and Wesson model 28.
With the serial number that you have supplied,your Smith and Wesson model 15 was made in the year 1950.
Your serial number indicates that your Smith and Wesson model 18 was made in the year 1962.
Your serial number indicates that your Smith and Wesson model 59 was made in the year 1975.