Early Ithaca models
Dave,
Thanks for bringing these #’s to light, I was unaware of these #’s and went looking on a few of my guns. I found 4 different guns with #’s under the extractors, non on ejector guns. 2 of these are Lewis guns, 1 is the Minier model, and 1 is a 1st year Flues guns.
#1 photo Is Lewis, 62,000 range. This would seem to almost signify it was produced in 1892, but it is 1902 gun?
#2 photo is Lewis, 63,000 range. This is a 1902 gun also, these marks almost seem to signify choke markings by the 3 and 2, but why the small o?
#3 photo is Flues 180,000 range. This is 1908 gun, 1st year Flues, these marks more closely resemble the way the gun pictured by you is showing Dave.
So this shows 3 somewhat different styles of marking them, what they represent I'm not sure, would be fun to figure it out.
I gave Walt Snyder a call yesterday, he of course knew what I was talking about but said he never was able to find or discover what these #'s represent.
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