Beginning about 1978 numbers 1 to 20 were also stamped on the three major components, frame,barrels and fore end iron, to enable the factory to keep 20 guns of like model together in a group for packing in the standard 20 gun shipping carton. Property ' 'Please leave comments at bottom of album pages' 1943 Savage No.

The letter prefix accompanied the Savage/Stevens/FoxB/Springfield serial number on every gun they made from 1968 on. The Lee-Enfield Story by Ian Skennerton (1993) - ISBN: 185367138X 'All Matching Serial Numbers - Stamped U.S. The letters do not correlate to production years. More information may be available at the. For most other models, only a range of years is given.

The six digit (always) numbers, stamped only on the left side of the frame, not on the barrels or fore end or on the wood, are preceded by capital letters from A to E. A serial number list for the Savage Model Ninety-Nine can be found in the Blue Book of Gun Values. From October 1968 to March 1988 Savage/Stevens/Fox B doubles are serial numbered in a completely new serial number range beginning at A000001. This was a date code which you will find illustrated in the Savage-Stevens-Fox pages of your Standard Catalog of Firearms.ĥ. From 1948 to 1968 the letter symbols under the frame were changed to a ‘Capital letter with a one or two digit number' in a 1/4″ circle.

From 1940 to 1948 no serial numbers were used on doubles, only capital letters, usually in groups of three or four, the letter(s) sometimes enclosed in a circle, along with an inspector's symbol ( a heart, a diamond, a spade or some such ‘shape', on the bottom of the frame behind the hinge pin.Ĥ. They always signified a change in mechanical design or manufacturing process which resulted in an interesting variant.ģ. Letter prefixes crept in on the serial numbers used on both hammer and hammerless doubles from 1913 to 1939. Stevens used plain numbers from their first double in 1878 until 1913.Ģ.

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