Helping a friend’s widow clean out the house and gun safe.
What I have appears to be 1889 s/n 208464 makes it born in 1901. What is the 195 stamp?
How do I get a factory letter and how does grading work?
1889 Factory letter and grade(?)
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Re: 1889 Factory letter and grade(?)
With the plain frame and lockplates it is a No. 1, 2 or 3, the difference being the barrel material and as patinaed as those barrels are I can't tell from your pictures. From a 1901 Remington Arms Co. catalog --
The Grade Number is stamped on the watertable to the left of the serial number --
As for most of the numbers other than the serial number and the grade number, no one left alive knows what they mean.
Remington stamped the pellet counts from their test firing of the gun on the bottom of the rear barrel lug. If the number is three-digits that is the count. Often, they only stamped two digits in which case a leading 3 is implied.
- 1901 Catalog, pg 10, Remington New Model Double Barrel Shot Gun.jpg (90.25 KiB) Viewed 453 times
- 92824 01 12-gauge, 28-inch, No. 1, grade number annotated.jpg (316.45 KiB) Viewed 453 times
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Remington stamped the pellet counts from their test firing of the gun on the bottom of the rear barrel lug. If the number is three-digits that is the count. Often, they only stamped two digits in which case a leading 3 is implied.