Trying to date my Rem model 11 and ID markings.

[Researcher]

Serial number 1551 would be a first year, 1905, Remington Autoloading Shotgun, the forerunner to the Model 11.

Remington Arms Co. introduced the John M. Browning designed Remington Autoloading Shotgun in 1905, these pages from the 1906 Remington Arms Co. catalogue --





In 1911, Marcellus Hartley Dodge combined his firearms company and his ammunition company, and the new combined company was Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Shortly thereafter they began calling their John M. Browning designed autoloading shotgun the Model No. 11. From the Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co. 1913-14 catalogue --