Smith & Wesson Ladysmith

The Smith & Wesson Ladysmith, later styled LadySmith, is a series of handguns made by Smith & Wesson from early in the first decade of the twentieth century. The name was first carried by a tiny M-frame .22 caliber hand-ejector revolver built from 1902 through 1921, and the company later applied the capitalized LadySmith name to other small revolvers, including models built on the somewhat larger J-frame. The later examples named in the source include the Model 65 LadySmith, a stainless steel, medium frame, six-shot revolver chambered in .357 Magnum, and the Model 631 LadySmith, a stainless steel, small frame, six-shot revolver chambered in .32 H&R Magnum. The source infobox lists the series as a revolver or pistol of United States origin and gives a service span of 1902 to 1986. It records no military service and no wartime use, so the entry belongs here as a small American handgun line rather than as an arm fielded by a named armed force.