marlin serial numbers

bear bruin

Anyone know of a site that shows year of manufacture for Marlin 1893s. Thanks[:)][:)]

bear bruin

I have a Marlin 1895GS that I believe is of early production. does anybody know anything about marlin's serial number system and the start sequence?

rufe-snow

http://oldguns.net/sn_php/marlinlookup.php

bear bruin

this is one of the newer stainless guide guns. the "marlin look up" does not accept my serial number

rufe-snow

Got the following off the net. I'm not sure of what your definition of early production is? I understood that the stainless guns, were made after 2000.


"after 2000 subtract the first two digits of the serial number from 2100, to get the year of manufacture".

bear bruin

this gun came from the gander mt headquarters in I believe early 2001. I was told it was an early production unit, and wanted to find out where marlin started their serial number production on these guns. the fit and finish is beautiful. it appears to be hand fitted.

yoshmyster

So mine starts with 93 so by this 2100 mine was built in 2007. Still before Remington's "RemLin".

savage170

1945-1972

Marlin year of manufacture may be determined from the following table of letter/numeral prefixs to the serial number:


Year | Prefix
1945 c (Lower case "c")
1946 C (Upper case "C")
1947 D
1948 E
1949 F
1950 G
1951 H
1952 J
1953 K
1954 L
1955 M
1956 N
1957 P
1958 R
1959 S
1960 T
1961 U
1962 V
1963 W
1964 Y, Z
1965 AA
1966 AB
1967 AC
1968 AD, 68
1969 69
1970 70
1971 71
1972 72

1973-2000
Starting in 1973, the year of manufacture can be determined by subtracting the first two digits of the serial number from 100:
Example: SN 2512345 would have been made in 1975 [100 - 25 = 75].

Year | Prefix
1973 27
1974 26
1975 25
1976 24
1977 23
1978 22
1979 21
1980 20
1981 19
1982 18
1983 17
1984 16
1985 15
1986 14
1987 13
1988 12
1989 11
1990 10
1991 09
1992 08
1993 07
1994 06
1995 05
1996 04
1997 03
1998 02
1999 01
2000 00

2001-Beyond

From 2001 on you can determine the manufacture year by subtracting the first two digits of the serial number from 100 and adding that to 2000.
For example, SN 9112345 would have been made in 2009 [100 - 91 = 9 + 2000 = 2009].

Another way of figuring out the serial numbers/dates after 2000 is by simply subracting the first two digits from 2100.
As in the above example: 2100 - 91 = 2009.

Guns made after 2000 will have serial numbers starting in "9" (until 2011 when they will most likely start in "8").

Year | Prefix
2001 99
2002 98
2003 97
2004 96
2005 95
2006 94
2007 93
2008 92
2009 91
2010 90

duckhunter

Thanks for your help.

bear bruin

yes this gives year of production, I already know it was made in 2001. I am looking for consecutive production numbers