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Sounds like he has a KED-Grade. When the K-quality Remington Hammerless Doubles were introduced in 1900 there were two versions, the K-Grade with Remington Steel barrels and a plain extractor and the KED-Grade with two-stripe Damascus barrels and automatic ejectors. In the 1903-04 Remington Arms Co....

The John M. Browning designed Remington Autoloading Shotgun was introduced in the 1905-06 Remington Arms Co. catalog. 1905-06 Catalogue.jpg Both of your guns are from that era, though 6600 appears to have later wood on it. In 1911, Marcellus Hartley Dodge combined his arms and ammunition companies a...

The bare receivers were set aside for the D and F grades to be hand engraved.

The receiver with the serial number 397556 was put in work during August 1937. Remington quit the separate serial number sequence for 12-gauge Sportsman on 24 August 1937, at 515506. So, that gun is among the first Sportsman serial numbered in the Model 11 sequence. The barrel should have the serial...

From the 1933 Remington catalog --
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The serial number chronology Charles Semmer created for his book, Remington Double Shotguns , shows serial numbers for Remington Hammerless Doubles (aka Model 1894s) up to 141194. In a lifetime of keeping track of Remington Hammerless Doubles I've recorded many up into the 139xxx range and then five...

L = February, A = 1954. The gun appears to be a Model 870 ADL "DeLuxe" Grade
The W suffix to the serial number indicates a 16-gauge. No prefix to the serial number indicates 1950 to 1967.

Very nice. What is the barrel length? Chokes?

It is an early 1920s box from shortly after the company became Remington Arms Co., Inc. In those years our ammunition manufacturers were experimenting with applying progressive burning smokeless powder, developed during The Great War, to shotgun shells. Certainly no clue in the 1923 Remington catalo...

I have 11 pics of 137777. Here are some more --

On an inside surface of the receiver is faintly marked "Oct 30st 94." I'm guessing that is the patent or model date. Two patents pertaining to the Remington Hammerless Double were issued on the same day, October 30, 1894. No. 528,507 pertaining to the milling of the frame was granted to R...

There's at least 1 EEO out there, Dave you have it don't you?

I have listed an EEO with no safety, 137777 --

When I was a kid, leading the charge of the baby boomers, my Father had Winchester rifles Model 54 .22 Hornet, Model 70 .30-06, Model 71 .348 Win., Model 94 .32 WS & Model 67 .22s. His shotguns were Remingtons, a pair of AE-Grades in 12- and 16-gauge for the uplands and his The Sportsman 12-gaug...

The no-safety guns I've recorded are all in the 132xxx and higher serial number range. The one that broke my heart was, 139928, a DEO-Grade that Pete Harvey had at the Pikesville, Maryland, gun show at least three decades ago that had a very poorly done retro-fit safety.