odd-ball s&w handcuffs??

sorry to bother you but i have a pairs of handcuffs in my collection and was wondering if anyone could answer a question about them? they look like a regular pair of model 100 double lock that you can buy anywhere, as a matter of fact that how they were bought as being model 100. but upon looking at them closer on the back of the cuffs they have different made at locations, one says it's made in springfield mass. and the other cuff says houlton me.. there is no model number stamped on the cuffs and i noticed the two chain links are a little smaller than regular model 100's. are they worth any thing as far as being collectable? are they just a mistake made by smith and wesson? i've had these cuffs for about ten years or longer and even carried them on duty and didnt notice the difference till the other night.. if you have any information on these cuff i would greatly enjoying hearing from you. thanks, Rodney

Hi Rodney:
Your cuffs are a little unusual, but not surprising. When the model 100 was first introduced in the early 1980's they were all marked with the Springfield
address. When S&W moved to Houlton they changed to the Houlton address on the cuffs. They probobally still had parts with the Springfield address and didn't want to waste them, so they used them along with the newly marked parts.

The chain links on the early cuff is shorter than on later versions.

Stan

sorry to bother you but i have a pairs of handcuffs in my collection and was wondering if anyone could answer a question about them? they look like a regular pair of model 100 double lock that you can buy anywhere, as a matter of fact that how they were bought as being model 100. but upon looking at them closer on the back of the cuffs they have different made at locations, one says it's made in springfield mass. and the other cuff says houlton me.. there is no model number stamped on the cuffs and i noticed the two chain links are a little smaller than regular model 100's. are they worth any thing as far as being collectable? are they just a mistake made by smith and wesson? i've had these cuffs for about ten years or longer and even carried them on duty and didnt notice the difference till the other night.. if you have any information on these cuff i would greatly enjoying hearing from you. thanks, Rodney

I forgot to mention that the early model 100's did not have the model number stamped on them.
Stan
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