Bill the serial number on my gun is 4003 later than yours (13571) so your gun is definitely older than mine but the way Lefever played with serial numbering I don't know if anyone could tell with any degree of certainty when either gun was built. As stated earlier my gun predates the dog and bird engraving on the side plates but does have a variation of the engraving pattern found on the late G and H grades only much larger on the side plates but no engraving on the receiver. Another interesting thing is that my gun does not have the double X symbol denoting a small frame as found on the later small frame guns although the receiver measurements are almost exactly the same as my late production G grade 16 gauge.
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