{"id":86849,"date":"2024-04-23T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=86849"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:27:36","slug":"the-1950-marketing-contest-to-name-the-sw-chiefs-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/23\/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":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdsDptJCaqk?si=2ncLSYyEa6C5EbdS\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jan 19, 2024<\/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 Boyko 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 Boyko of Passaic New Jersey in 1950. When S&#038;W introduced the new revolver to compete with Colt&#8217;s Detective Special, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,663],"tags":[1063,1366,49,1266,428,619,98],"class_list":["post-86849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-1950s","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-handguns","tag-marketing","tag-newjersey","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mAN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86850,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86849\/revisions\/86850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}