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January 28, 2016
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Posting for a friend who has a first year 1892 standard oct brl rifle in 44wcf. There is a number 4 stamped on both sides of forearm near receiver, on top of barrel in front of receiver, rear side of receiver and on the side of the stock. Any thoughts from the gallery?
March 20, 2009
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Hello Mark,
I have looked at more than 13,000 Model 1892 rifles and have not seen similar marks to those. They are most likely “rack marks” which were applied when an entity had numerous identical rifles and wanted to easily identify one from another. Can I get the ful lSN of the gun so that Ican add it into my survey of the 1892’s?
thanks
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
January 28, 2016
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Michael,
Thanks for the reply. Rack number was my thought but odd marked on all major parts. Serial is 19298.
Mark
March 20, 2009
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Mark,
One would have to assume that the rifle was marked repeatedly so that when disassembled the parts would be put back together into the same rifle. Thus, the entity who marked it had at lest 4 of them. Is there a small set screw on the right side of the front sight base? Can you please post pics of the tang stamp and the barrel address?
Thanks
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
January 28, 2016
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Michael,
I will see about getting you the info.
What can you tell me about 1892s with octagon vs. round barrels? I assume octagon was standard and more guns are so fitted? Do you have statistics as to one vs the other? Thanks,
Mark
March 20, 2009
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Mark,
Actually, both the round and octagon are considered standard configurations in the catalogs. The round barrel, solid frame, full mag rifle cost $18.00 from it’s introduction until at least 1916. The octagon barrel version was $1.50 more. I have not calculated the % of OB vs RB in quite a while but recall it to be about 30% of the sporting rifles were round barrel.
I hope that helps
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
