Contact the maker.
Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson, 3rd ed.
Impossible to answer without a detailed description and the serial number.
Impossible to answer without knowing who made it.
Depending on what you mean by "trace", the answer could be yes or no.
blue book of gun values
Yes it is illegal to own a gun that does not have a serial number. It is also illegal to remove the serial number off a gun.
It depends on what you mean. You can obtain some information about the gun itself, such as manufature date by the serial number, but as far as "registration" or finding previous owners or anything like that, the short answer is, you can't.
Go to the Browning home page www.browning.com/services where they list serial numbers of all brownings. you can send browning the serial number of your gun and for a price they will send you the history of your particular gun.
With just the serial number, nothing.
It would be almost impossible to identify a gun just by its serial number.
my similar gun of which I'm seeking info has a serial number on the top edge of the chamber which can be seen after the breach is opened. My number is 101655. Anyone have history?
Some makers offer historical letters. No, there is no registry that you can access.