Your question cannot be answered without the serial number.Please look at the bottom of the grip and include the serial number with your question.
Your Smith and Wesson model 36-1 chief,s special was made in the year 1969 with the serial number you have supplied.
The Smith and wesson model 36 was made from 1957-1966.The model 36-1 was started in 1967.
s&w mod. 36-7 serial BKE 25xxWhat year was my Smith and Wesson
Your early J frame model 36 Smith and Wesson was made in the year 1955 with the serial number that you have provided.
1981
Your serial number indicates that your early model 36 was made in the year 1954.
@1972
No way to answer without a serial number.
@1973
@1952
Impossible to answer without a serial number.
Sometime in the 80's