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I read on some internet sites including these blessed forums that the sq butt vs rd butt is a typo in the SCSW.
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+1; Jim Supica, one of the SCSW co-authors, has acknowledged that he got this backwards.
I don't have my books handy, but IIRC the square-butt frame debuted approximately midway through the model run of the .38 M&P Model of 1902, 1st Change, although it was not catalogued. Some collectors consider the very early SB guns to be a separate transitional model, a "pre-Model of 1905" so to speak, rather than a Model of 1902 per se.
IIRC the SB frame quickly overtook the original RB frame in sales once the Model of 1905 officially debuted. If the RB frame ever outsold the SB frame, it only happened early in the production run of the Model of 1905. Whether it happened at all, and if so, for how long is a matter of some debate.