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April 20, 2022
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My Great Grandpa Graham’s 1897 shotgun became mine when I was in my mid 20’s, anyway, it’s a 30″ full choke non takedown 12 gauge.
Doesn’t have a spec of bluing left on it anywhere. Serial number C119506.
I guess that makes this a “C” series? The gun works fine, I used to hunt with it a little some 30 years ago. It’ll be a hand me down to one of my son’s along with the several other family shotguns I managed to obtain.
Somewhere along the line I had come up with 1901 as the date, but I might be off on that assessment.
Thanks
April 15, 2005
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Hello Mike,
Your old Model 1897 is a “C” series gun, and it was manufactured in December 1900.
Which style marking is on the slide bar (see the attached pictures bellow);
Bert
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April 20, 2022
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Mr. Bert,
The differences are subtle but after taking a few pictures and coming up here to my computer and looking carefully at your two choices, it’s definitely the Type 2.
Thanks for the info.
April 15, 2005
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Mike Turk said
Mr. Bert,The differences are subtle but after taking a few pictures and coming up here to my computer and looking carefully at your two choices, it’s definitely the Type 2.
Thanks for the info.
That is what I expected it would be. There was an overlap of the two types though.
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