If manufactured prior to 1/1/1969 no serial number was required and if it was made later it must be clearly visible on the receiver. The Model 36 was made before serial numbes but the latest versions may have the assembly date code. http://www.histandard.info/PDF/Sears%20Rifles.pdf
what is the serial number ????
Your serial number indicates that your early model 36 was made in the year 1954.
No way to answer without a serial number.
Impossible to answer without a serial number.
No Model 36 (marked as such) had that serial number. The Chief Special which later became the Model 36 with that serial number was made in the early 1950's, before S&W assigned model numbers. The serial number on your gun is located on the butt.
36 dollars
You will have to call S&W with the serial number and ask.
No way of knowing without you providing the serial number.
s&w mod. 36-7 serial BKE 25xxWhat year was my Smith and Wesson
With the serial number to your Smith and Wesson model 36-1 being J562694,this indicates that it was manufactured between the years 1976-1977.
Your early J frame model 36 Smith and Wesson was made in the year 1955 with the serial number that you have provided.