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In that the happy young lad is holding a Remington Model 121 the poster is from 1937 or later. Between the 1936 and 37 Remington Arms Co. catalogs the old Model 12 got updated to the Model 121.

The receiver with serial number 1507671 was put in work during January 1935.

Everything I see points to a Grade 3, Model 1878. See page 64 of Remington Double Shotguns by Charles Semmer.

If it is a Model 11 autoloader June 1923 or if a Model 10 pump December 1926, well after the company became Remington Arms Co., Inc. in 1920. But they were still using the REMINGTON over UMC in a circle trademark and occasionally using up barrels marked The Remington Arms Union Metallic Ctg. Co ...

Remington Hammerless Double stocks were hand fitted and are not interchangeable. There were light and heavier frames, and circa 1905/6 the action was changed with different hammers and sears. The unfortunate facts of life are that the cost of properly restocking a Remington Hammerless Double by one ...

I've had pretty poor results from pre-WW-II non-corrosive primer shotgun shells.

In 1920 Remington Arms Co., Inc. was formed and later in 1920 The Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Co., Inc. was dissolved. Lately I've seen three shell boxes from the facility in Brimsdown, England, that have Kleanbore priming which came in circa 1931 and include the DuPont logo which took ...

The receiver with serial number 177686 was put in work right around New Years 1920, so too late for The Great War.

What is the company name on the barrel? During 1920 the new company Remington Arms Co., Inc. was formed and Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Co., Inc. was dissolved.

It is the John D. Pedersen designed Remington Repeating Shotgun (aka Model 1908) introduced on the back page of the 1908 Remington Arms Co. catalog -- 1908 Remington Arms Co. Catalog page 58.jpeg In 1911, Marcellus Hartley Dodge combined his arms and ammunition companies as Remington Arms - Union ...

I dug into my library and found Mike Alsop's articles on the Remington Rolling Block Shotguns are in The Remington Collector's Journal , 4th Quarter 2020 and 4th Quarter 2021. The gun was introduced with a tip-in sheet in some E. Remington & Sons 1870 Catalogs. The earliest magazine ad found for the ...

The pages listing the various brass NPEs in the 1885-6 Union Metallic Cartridge Co. catalog discusses the A and B. No mention of A or B in the 1887 catalog for whatever that is worth.

The earliest smokeless shotgun powder, Wood, actually came out in 1876, but smokeless didn't really begin to take hold until the big companies began providing factory loaded shells. Union Metallic Cartridge Co. in 1891 and Winchester pretty quickly thereafter. Prior to that, they only provided NPEs ...

You guys are talking about modern shotgun shells. Back in the day, brass shells came in A and B sizes for each gauge. Those marked A were for use in guns made for paper shells, and those marked B were for guns made for brass shells only. From an 1880 Union Metallic Cartridge Co. price list -- 1880 ...

According to the old factory ledger, the receiver with the serial number 270075 was put in work during November 1923. Should be a two-letter date code on the left side of the barrel just in front of the receiver. Is the barrel serial numbered to the gun?

The Model 25 first appears in the first Remington Arms Co., Inc. catalog, Catalogue No. 51.
The Model 25R Carbine is pictured in the 1923 Remington Arms Co., Inc. catalog.