- AMERICAN GUN CO SERIAL NUMBERS HOW TO
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If you pick up an Italian gun made between 19, the date code will be in Roman numerals, and for the immediate post-war period the code is in Arabic numerals – that is the conventional 1,2,3, etc. For now, here are the date letter codes for the past 20 years: Google Italian proof house date codes and you can find tables going back to 1945. Look at an Italian-manufactured gun and you will see the letter sequences appear in a little rectangle near the proof information. To make complete sense of thing you need a table of letters and years. Officials in the Italian proof house in Gardone Val Trompia, near Brescia, choose to miss out other letters, some for logical reasons (for instance, O and Q could easily be mistaken for zero) and others for no apparent reason (G and R, for instance). The Italian alphabet contains only 21 letters, there being no k, j, w, x, or y. Miroku of Japan, who make the traditionally-styled break-action Brownings, have adopted Browning’s date coding system in their serial numbers. Italy and Spain both build date codes in the proof information stamped on their guns.
AMERICAN GUN CO SERIAL NUMBERS HOW TO
So what’s the answer? You need to know how to read the different proof marks on guns to discover how old a gun is. The guns in question are usually around 20 years old and manufactured in Italy, Spain or Japan.
(This Image is Too Large to Be Displayed Within the Post. See attached picture, the "B" is hardly readable in the picture but that is the stamp as seen by the human eye. It is important to me to know that it is a pre-1900 production gun, as I am trying to carry an "ancient weapon" as determined by the three letter people, "as not a firearm" for self defense. I might hazard a guess that it was the second run of 50,000 as "B" and 52121 after that so that would make it either in the 250,000 range?
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I do have a serial number from the underside of the left grip after perusing the various forums on the net helping to identify it. "PATD APR 6, 86 FEB 15, 87 MAY 10,87 AUG 25,96, PATS PENDING"Īssuming that the last patent date was 1896, this would put the production somewhere in the 1896-1900 time frame I hope. 32 break open second model Ivers Johnson with patent dates leading up to 1896. I cannot afford a copy of the book mentioned from Amazon nor find it in a local library. I have tried to help with other postings for 10/22s here over the years. Perhaps you can help me identify the production year of this Ivers Johnson. I might be able to help, but you'd need to provide me with a serial number. There are a number of variations of Iver Johnson SuperShot revolvers and it would help your quest if you provided a more detailed description of your revolver, and/or a good photo. There is a serial number listing for the Iver Johnson SuperShot 22 Top Break Revolvers in W.E.Goforth's book/reference, "Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works Firearms 1871 - 1993". Still looking for year this particular gun was manufacturered. Might note that the manufacturer of the gun was not too particular in exactly where they located the serial number on the grip frame because the first number 1 digit is cut into/across the screw head that holds the finger rest to the grip frame !!! Took the grips off and there is an "L" in the front of the serial number under the grips. It is dark now, so will try to post photos of it in the morning.Īssuming that the serial number IS 1417x, any idea as to the exact year of production ? It has a metal finger rest attached to the front of the grip frame, is an 8 shot and is SA only. Both the 1st digit and the 3rd digit both appear to be same, i.e. Does not appear to have any serial number inside of the frame and have not had a chance to take the grip off of it yet.ĭoes NOT appear to have any "L" in the serial number. I am read that off of the bottom of the trigger guard.
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