Angel
I am guessing that Brad was referring to just the rear sight. They are not that good of photos but, this is 2 shots of the front sight on my ELW.

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Paul

Matt74 said
Bert: While we are throwing out dates and s/n’s, from what you have seen have you narrowed down a date (s/n range) when Winchester dropped the 19 from their various models? For example, the 1894 became the Model 94, etc.

Matt

Matt,

Frank F. Burton issued a "Change of Manufacture Notice" in February of 1919 to delete the "18" and "19" from the model designation stamps. However, Winchester did not throw out the older roll die stamps until they wore out, resulting in their use for nearly the remainder of 1919 for some models. For the Model 1894/94, the Type 5 upper tang roll die made its debut somewhere in the 892877 – 897060 serial range (December 1919 – January 1920). Serial number 892876 is the highest serial number that I have surveyed with the Type 4 marking, and 897060 is the lowest serial number with the Type 5 marking. If anyone out there has a Model 1894/94 inside that serial range, I would sure like to know more about it.

For pdog72 (Gary), it was very shortly after good old Jolly St. Nick visited the Winchester factory that the new Type 5 roll dies were put into use on December 26th, 1919

In regards to the many different production changes that occurred to the Model 1894/94 during the 1920s – 1950s, I have nearly all of them nailed down to a relatively short serial number range, but I am still working on refining the numbers further. I am still very intently surveying the Models 1894/94, 55, and 64. If anyone wants to add their Winchester(s) to my survey, please send me a PM or and email.

Bert

Thanks a bunch Bert. That was exactly what I was looking for.

Matt