Generations: Glock Speed Loaders

[POWinCA]

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to retire my Glock 17, Gen 2 purchased and made in 1990.

I had, by this time, replaced practically every internal part. Only the locking block was original. But I had saved every original part except for the recoil spring which failed.

I had read that some people prefer gen 2 over Gen 3 or 4, and I thought I could get at least enough to buy a new Gen 3. But after caressing the lovely lines of my first Glock, I decided I would not sell it.

I found the original brush which was easily identifiable by 24 years of dirt and oil. But the one part I could not identify as original was my speed loader! (And the magazine baseplates)

Ive got speed loaders from my G17, G26, G22, G23, a Gen 4 G35 and two more that I bought as spares.

One of them is marked 483 with a superscript 2 on the left side under the Glock logo.

Three of them have a strange bar code like symbol below the Glock logo on the RIGHT side.

One has the bar code symbol under the Glock logo on the LEFT side.

Two speed loaders are MIA, but im sure i still have them.

Does anyone know how to decipher the generation of the speed loader?

I will post pictures of my variations soon.

[POWinCA]

PS. The speed loaders with the bar code symbol have a rougher texture than the one marked 483 2. Either the texture wore down from use or the texture was deliberately changed. Im guessing my 483 2 speed loader is the original G17. But my G26 speed loader was from the mid 90s. All the rest are from post 2011.