G- Whiz!

[Researcher]

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.

241968 01a 26-inch, 16-gauge, XJ X = December, J = 1940.jpg

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

238428 02.jpg

241331 EG E = Oct., G = 1938.jpg

240305 XG X = December G = 1938.jpg

240003 BF B = January F = 1937.jpg

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237731.jpg

242353 LL L = February, L = 1942.jpg

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

[Cold Spring]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

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]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

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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