- MILITARY DATES OF MANUFACTURE. Military Krag- U.S. Rifles and Carbines Models 1892 to 1899: Covering numbers: 1 - 484000. Please enter a serial number and click the submit button.
- It is not uncommon to find the “3” stamped backwards. For those rifles manufactured prior to 1921, rifles not found with a date code, or rifles found with ONLY a repair code, these will be dated best by using the serial number list at the bottom of the page. Determining month of manufacture (FIRST LETTER) B – January.
- Serial numbers that begin with a “C” were.45 ACP and serial numbers that begin with a “W” were.455 Webley calibers. 4) Colt M1911 British RAF Contract: S/N W91,100 to W110,696 = Jan. 22, 1918 to April 28, 1919 (Approx. 10,000 pistols were shipped to the Royal Air Force from this serial number range and were.455 Webley caliber.).
- For the search to work, please enter your serial number in all UPPERCASE letters and numbers with no spaces between the characters. Be certain to not confuse numeric and alphabetic characters, such as O's for zeros or we will be unable to locate your serial number. Only enter the serial number and no additional information. Do not insert spaces.
Savage Arms Serial Numbers Manufacture Date
Alex has spent a lifetime in the sewing industry and is considered one of the foremost experts of pioneering machines and their inventors. He has written extensively for trade magazines, radio, television, books and publications world wide. You may have seen him on The Great British Sewing Bee or How The Victorians Built Britain.
Remington never (.) (.) used serial numbers to identify the date of manufacture of it's firearms, they however stamped a date code (spelled out below) by the first letter meaning the month and the last letter the year of manufacture. BARREL DATE CODE - stamped exposed on LH top rear of barrel after 1920.
The simple guide to dating your early Singer sewing machines.
(Where your Singer has two serial numbers always choose the larger of the two to date your machine)
Singer machine serial number dating Guide
(Brace yourself it's tricky!)
Please note this is only a guide, not gospel! Some people mail me to say they have a receipt from 1950 so how could my guide have their machine as made in 1948 or 1949? Let me explain. The production runs at factories like Kilbowie were complex and long. The castings were marked with the serial number during manufacture. The machines were miles from completion, packing and delivery. Then there is delivery to the depot, storage, sales to the shop, and eventually sales to the customer.These factors all effect the purchase/receipt date, but not the date of manufacture.
For example during WW2 it is a well know fact the Singers were making guns and bullets as well as sewing machines. Only when they could spare the time would they continue with sewing machine production. I have come across a woman who bought her machine brand new in 1946 yet the casting was clearly made in 1939 just before the outbreak of WWII. During World War Two Singer had back orders for over three millions machines!
Now to the dating
All Singers up until 1900 have no letter prefix and came from several factories around the world. The company cleverly managed their production from all factories to coincide with the serial number flow. If you fancy a read on the collapse of Singer in Britain have a go at End of Empire.
Why two serial numbers?
Very early Singers from the 1850's up until the start of prefix letters in 1900 had two serial numbers. There is a lot of controversy over why there were two lots of numbers. The most likely answer is that the larger number was the total number of machines produced by Singers when they only had a few factories and could keep up with, and control, the production output from Britain and America. They would order machines in batches say, 1,000 or 10,000 from Kilbowie, Elizabethport and elsewhere. The lower number may be the total production/batch run of that particular model range, the larger the overall total number of Singer machines made.
Singers have never manage to shed light on these two numbers!
Note: when two serial numbers are on the machine use the larger of the serial numbers.
Anyway here goes nothing. I do hope you find it useful.
Note:
Glock Serial Number Manufacture Date
On pre-1900 Singer machines if there are two serial numbers, always use the higher, longer, larger, serial number of the two to date your machine.
Production and Serial Numbers Table M1903 “Modified” and M1903A3 (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | ||||
| Month | Actual | Accredited Inspection & Approval | Calculated | |||||
| & | Factory | Factory Invoice | Final | End-month | ||||
| Year | Production1 | To Ordnance2 | Ordnance Apprl.3 | Serial Numbers.4 | ||||
| 1941: | ||||||||
| October | 101 | 0 | 0 | 3,000,100 | ||||
| November | 1,892 | 0 | 0 | 3,001,992 | ||||
| December | 7,031 | 891 | 1,273 | 3,009,023 | ||||
| 1942: | ||||||||
| January | 11,048 | 16,445 | 16,063 | 3,020,071 | ||||
| February | 15,158 | 11,981 | 11,981 | 3,035,229 | ||||
| March | 19,240 | 21,889 | 21,889 | 3,054,469 | ||||
| April | 24,189 | 25,982 | 25,982 | 3,078,658 | ||||
| May | 30,479 | 28,691 | 29,470 | 3,109,137 | ||||
| June | 30,351 | 32,941 | 32,162 | 3,139,488 | ||||
| July | 31,485 | 31,137 | 29,991 | 3,170,973 | ||||
| August | 31,049 | 28,981 | 30,127 | 3,202,022 | ||||
| September | 26,020 | 25,072 | 22,170 | 3,228,042 | ||||
| October | 30,615 | 34,284 | 37,160 | 3,258,657 | ||||
| November | 37,181 | 37,178 | 37,204 | 3,295,838 | ||||
| December | 43,379 | 43,200 | 43,200 | 3,339,2175 | ||||
| 1943: | ||||||||
| January | 48,024 | 44,418 | 44,618 | 3,388,572 | ||||
| February | 49,704 | 51,886 | 51,774 | 3,458,758 | ||||
| March | – | 59,065 | 58,477 | 3,520,614 | ||||
| April | – | 50,287 | 50,287 | 3,573,277 | ||||
| May | – | 35,980 | 35,982 | 3,710,958 | ||||
| June | – | 66,640 | 58,962 | 3,780,746 | ||||
| July | – | 42,094 | 49,770 | 3,824,829 | ||||
| August | – | 60,565 | 58,265 | 3,888,272 | ||||
| September | – | 64,080 | 66,523 | 3,955,409 | ||||
| October | – | 65,253 | 65,610 | 4,023,778 | ||||
| November | – | 62,141 | 61,774 | 4,088,927 | ||||
| December | – | 56,251 | 56,415 | 4,147,8876 | ||||
| 1944: | ||||||||
| – | 37,822 | 38,025 | 4,187,457 | |||||
| – | 20,560 | 20,560 | 4,209,XXX6 | |||||
| Grand Total: | Incomplete: | 1,055,7147 | 1,055,7147 | |||||
| * | Table Assumptions and Notes: |
| (Based in part on documents obtained by Clark Campbell from the Ilion, NY Remington Plant Manager files, circa 1955) | |
| 1. | Actual assembled rifles in the Remington warehouse inventory awaiting Ordnance inspection as shown on the Planning Supervisor’s “Accounting Summary” dated March 9, 1943. No such comparable statistics are known to exist beyond February 1943. Since these were final assembled and tested rifles made ready for Ordnance Dept. inspection, they represent the earliest and most accurate base-data for approximate calculation of actual “end-of-month” production Serial Numbers (SNs) from the start of production through February, 1943. |
| 2. | Remington’s rifle production based on Ordnance Dept. inspection report data used for monthly invoicing for services rendered under contract. In absence of actual factory production records predating “final inspection” via note #1 above, the “factory invoice” record becomes the next most reliable statistical basis for approximating “end-of-month” SNs. |
| 3. | Final approved rifle production based on Ordnance Dept., Small Arms Branch, Industrial Division record summary dated March 10, 1944. This report reconciles in finality all rifle inspection approval issues that may have remained after close of each monthly billing period. It is considered the U.S. Government’s official production record. |
| 4. | Serial numbering began with SN 3,000,000 and numerically remained continuous to end of production except as shown below. All “end-of-month” SNs are calculated approximations only. Also, it is noted that final rifle assembly followed receiver serialization by an approximate average of 2 weeks. The factory shop-assembly process resulted in final rifle production in no particular SN order or sequence, therefore rifles with higher SNs than the number of rifles produced may exist for any given month. |
| A. | SN calculations reflect the reality “gaps” as well as “duplicates” within the serial numbering process. By definition, a SN gap is either a dropped or unaccounted for SN (“lost”); or a serially stamped, but defective receiver never used in making a fully assembled rifle, e.g. a “scrapped” receiver. These gaps in the SN sequence have resulted in more SNs assigned than rifles made. The total number of gaps is statistically estimated to be 33,487 based on known or observed SN data and purposely distributed proportionately for simplicity purposes each month for all rifles produced from January 1943 to the end of production. A SN duplicate merely represents more than one rifle with the same SN. |
| B. | For purposes of this Table, all M1903 “Modified†and M1903A3 receivers serially stamped before January 10, 1943 were believed to be assembled into and counted as complete rifles with little problem with SN gaps or duplicates, even though an “A†prefix system was supposedly in place to stamp a reclaimed “reject†receiver in order to avoid a duplicate SN. However, lack of extant evidence of “A” prefixed receivers to date assumes that marginally few actually materialized. This is more than likely explained by an extraordinary control system installed by Remington to rigorously monitor SN stamping both within the production plant, as well as a check-off at the terminal-shipping warehouse to assure only one completely assembled rifle per SN assigned. |
| C. | After January 10, 1943, Remington was directed to cease monitoring SN disorders since the Ordnance Department was no longer concerned about this problem. Thereafter, all internal accounting controls were removed, and both gaps and duplicates occurred without any corrective measures taken. Eventually, the Ordnance Dept. recognized the folly of the foregoing, and on August 11, 1943 reinstated serial number control. This included a prefixing program for duplicate SNs, but using a “Z” prefix, and then requiring the stamping machine be set up to assure use of any given SN only one time. This new procedure didn’t affect the continued occurrence of gaps due to receiver “rejects”, but provided better assurance of fewer “Z” prefixes resulting from duplicate SNs. |
| D. | A total of 120,000 SNs were reassigned from M1903 “Modified” and M1903A3 SN allocation as follows:
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Hp Serial Number Manufacture Date
| 5. | M1903A3 production phasing out the M1903 “Modified” began in December 1942 with the first 1909 rifles included in the factory invoice to the Ordnance Dept. The last of the M1903 “Modified” rifles was completed the following March 1943. |
| 6. | This so-called last SN is an approximated end-number only. It is based on a Rochester Ordnance District Memo to Remington dated February 17, 1944 listing SN 4208782 as a rejected rifle failing to meet the parts inter-change test requirements. This rifle was inspected just 11 days prior to termination of all M1903A3 contract production. Additionally, a memo dated August 26, 1944 shipped 6 test rifles less stock & magazine assemblies back to Ilion as part of program closure that listed SN 4209138 and 4209316. |
| 7. | This total Remington production includes 348,085 M1903 “Modified” rifles. |
| WRH/Revision date: 6/15/13 | |