{"id":24019,"date":"2024-01-19T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/the-1950-marketing-contest-to-name-the-sw-chiefs-special\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:00:44","slug":"the-1950-marketing-contest-to-name-the-sw-chiefs-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/the-1950-marketing-contest-to-name-the-sw-chiefs-special\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1950 Marketing Contest to Name the S&#038;W Chiefs Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdsDptJCaqk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re taking a look at a Smith &#038; Wesson Chiefs Special, but not just any Chiefs Special. This is serial number 29, factory engraved and gifted to Chief Edward Book of Passaic New Jersey in 1950. When S&#038;W introduced the new revolver to compete with Colt&#8217;s Detective Special, they simply called it the &#8220;Model J&#8221; (it was the first of the J-frame S&#038;W revolvers). They released it at the 1950 annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and ran a contest among to attendees to name the new gun. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Edward Boyko&#8217;s suggestion of &#8220;Chiefs Special&#8221; was (perhaps unsurprisingly, given the audience) voted winner, and S&#038;W gave him a personally engraved example as a prize. He would carry that gun for another 10 years as Passaic Chief of Police before retiring in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs Special was essentially a slightly scaled-up I-frame revolver, strengthened to handle the .38 Special cartridge instead of the previous .38 S&#038;W option. 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This is serial number 29, factory engraved and gifted to Chief Edward Book of Passaic New Jersey in 1950. When S&#038;W introduced the new revolver to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/the-1950-marketing-contest-to-name-the-sw-chiefs-special\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 1950 Marketing Contest to Name the S&#038;W Chiefs Special<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}