Rem Model 11 : Date Help, Please

[Virginian]

I do know you used to be able to get just about anything you wanted from the Remington Custom Shop, and the pricing wasn't all that bad. I have seen maple stocks, and in fact I think it was in the 60s they made a whole run of I think "Sunburst" models with light finished stocks.

[Researcher]

While you are entitled to believe anything you want, the fact remains, the gun in question is a very badly buffed and reblued Remington Autoloading Gun of about 1909 vintage, with a funky maple after market stock, none of which ever saw the Remington Custom Shop.

[Virginian]

Researcher, ignoring this particular gun, don't you remember those "Sunburst" I think they were called models?

[Researcher]

In the late 1950s into at least 1961, Remington offered their Model 870, Sportsman 58 and 878 skeet and trap guns with "Sun-Grain" stocks and forearms carrying an X suffix in their designation Model 870SX, 870TX, "Sportsman" 58SX, "Sportsman" 58TX, etc. None of the Remington catalogues of the period that I have explain what kind of wood the "Sun-Grain" stocks and forearms are.