I believe the pinned and recessed 629’s in 8 3/8” are a pretty rare bird.
A friend of mine, now deceased, was a gun dealer over in Missouri back when I was a gun dealer too. He had one and was trying to trade me a 6" model. His was outfitted with the old diamond oversized grips...walnut instead of the then-standard Goncalo Alves. He had another set and wanted to outfit the six-incher with diamond grips too and trade it to me. The old diamond grips really made the 629 in either length, stand out. It made it "pop" as Safariman would say.
