Consecutive Serial Numbers

[Dean Romig]

Not so long ago I owned 74443, 74446 and 74625 all at the same time. All Grade 1 T/A 16's with fishtail levers and Laminated Steel barrels and all were very nice guns!





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[Researcher]

Such a situation has just popped up. An Ithaca NID No. 4E 12-gauge, 26-inch, just listed on GI, one number off from a No. 4E 16-gauge, 26-inch, I bought from Randy Shuman 36 years ago.

[WHO]

So Dave, does the serial number of the gun for sale increase ithe gun's value in your eyes?

[Researcher]

Originally Posted by Wayne Owens

So Dave, does the serial number of the gun for sale increase the gun's value in your eyes?

No. The gun does appear to be a nice high condition late NID though. My 16-gauge has the options of the SST, recoil pad and twin ivories, but no beavertail.

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[Dean Romig]

Go for it Dave!





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[Researcher]

What actually interested me was all the information the seller had on the gun being begun in 1941 but finished up and sold after WW-II to Blish, Mize & Silliman Hardware Co. in Atchison, Kansas.

Walter could find no info in the records he had for my gun.

I already have a 12-gauge No. 4E 26-inch vent rib skeet gun that I call my Bill Clinton gun. As a government employee in D.C. we got inauguration day off, and I rode down to Green Top that day and found the No. 4E skeet gun.

[BRDHNTR]

I have 2 T shirts that came off the production line together, just sayin' lol

[Stan Hoover]

Originally Posted by allen newell

I have 2 T shirts that came off the production line together, just sayin' lol

And does the serial # on those T shirts tell you which sweat shop they were produced in?
Maybe date of manufacture

[BRDHNTR]

yes

[WHO]

Here is a photo of the consecutive serial numbered gun l just purchased next to my cherished family hammer gun. The guns were ordered 14 days apart in 1905 and shipped a month apart. One was ordered on the east coast, the other on the west coast. One is a 20 gauge, the other a 28 gauge. The 28 gauge was part of a two gun order with both guns identical except for the initials engraved on the shields. I figured I didn't own a 28 gauge and the chances of finding a consecutively numbered gun put this purchase in the "it was meant to be" category.
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