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Tony Darmo
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Tony,

It means that it is a post 1907 production Model 1890 receiver.  The Model 1906 (which used the exact same receiver, but with different internal parts) had a “B” marked below the serial number.

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Tony

SN 461501 was in fact serialized during 1911.

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