The actual manufacturer's websites - like those of Marlin, Browning, Colt, Beretta, and likely others - while providing some information, often contain erroneous data or are incomplete for older guns before a certain manufacture date. One of the reasons I started this thread was in the hopes that eventually a lot of people would provide links to various websites and/or other forum threads/lists that are frequented by collectors of various makes of guns. So, please post the links to the ones you find most useful, and/or let us know which reference books are great sources for this type of information! Has Browning, some Colt, Winchester, and some military info/links:Ĭolt's Website (seems to have lots of missing serial numbers?)īrowning (this is different from the one accessed through ): I'll start by listing the ones I have so far: (I tried the search function and did not see this done already, although I did find some info in various threads which referenced a few individual sources of this type of information.) So, I was hoping the knowledgeable folks here would add to this thread with whatever web sources - or even reference books - they use to determine firearm date of manufacture.

I was hoping to get the various web (or other) sources of firearm 'date of manufacture by serial number' gathered together in one place for future reference, as I think it would be a really useful thread for all of us with collector interest.

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