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Jeff Kuss 09-06-2024 09:16 AM

I just looked at my late Remington 1/2 frame and vhe 410, they both have the heart and star stamp on the barrels.

Dave Noreen 09-06-2024 10:43 AM

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The heart and the sunburst are a couple of the most common Remington era inspector's (?) marks. Russ's gun has an XH date code -- X = December H = 1939. My 16-gauge 1-frame has an XJ date code -- X = December J = 1940 (edited) -- and it has the heart and sunburst marks.

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There are a lot of other marks I've recorded as well --

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There are more, but not sure how many pictures I can attach.

Dave Noreen 09-06-2024 10:46 AM

One more thing, I've recorded the Ilion grip caps on 1-frame and larger, but I've yet to see anything but Meriden grip caps on 0-frames and smaller.

Frank Srebro 09-06-2024 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave Noreen (Post 416250)
The heart and the sunburst are a couple of the most common Remington era inspector's (?) marks. Russ's gun has an XH date code -- X = December H = 1939. My 16-gauge 1-frame has an XJ date code -- X = December J = 1941 -- and it has the heart and sunburst marks.

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So Dave, on the two date codes you cited, are those the respective production dates, or dates of return to Remington for service or whatever?

Dean Romig 09-06-2024 11:27 AM

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My grandson, Cam's, VH 20 gauge on the 0-frame, No. 228145 was sent to Remington to be refurbished in the 1960's and got a new butt stock and grip cap then.
Anyway, I presume they did not send it off to DelGrego to do the work. The whole thing was facilitated by Orvis in Manchester, VT.

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Dave Noreen 09-06-2024 11:34 AM

I mistyped in my post. The XJ on my 16-gauge should be X = December J = 1940. The date code with no number after it I take as the production date for the barrels. With a number, usually 3, after it is a repair code.

Dean Romig 09-06-2024 12:05 PM

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Hmmm… more cause for confusion…

J could be either 1940 or 1962…

Thoughts on this??


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Dean Romig 09-06-2024 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Frank Srebro (Post 416253)
So Dave, on the two date codes you cited, are those the respective production dates, or dates of return to Remington for service or whatever?


Without the 3 suffix Frank, those are dates of manufacture of the gun.




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Frank Srebro 09-06-2024 02:13 PM

Thank you Dean and Dave for your replies. The gun I saw with the heart stamp also had a sunburst stamp, but didn’t have a suffix with the date code. Thus I’m assuming the date code indicates completion of the gun or barrels.

William Woods 09-06-2024 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean Romig (Post 416258)
My grandson, Cam's, VH 20 gauge on the 0-frame, No. 228145 was sent to Remington to be refurbished in the 1960's and got a new butt stock and grip cap then.
Anyway, I presume they did not send it off to DelGrego to do the work. The whole thing was facilitated by Orvis in Manchester, VT.

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The buttstock on your grandson's V grade looks much nicer than the typical V grade. When it was sent back to Remington was it ordered with a higher grade wood or, as I have read here, did Remington just use a higher grade than Parker?


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