No Serial Number

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Tread399
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No Serial Number

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I have a Fox 16 ga B model (Mass manf). Double triggers. Extractors. Beavertail.
I have looked at all metal surfaces, and no serial number. Marked on barrels, receiver,
and fore end with "I" in a circle, and "FX," but no serial number. No signs of filing of
serial number. Any ideas?
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Re: No Serial Number

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They didn't have serial numbers until the gun control act of 1968 required it. On the bottom of the receiver, just back of the forearm iron there should be a tiny circle or oval with a number and a letter in it. The letter is the year of manufacture. A=1949, B=1950 etc. "O" and "Q" were not used because of similarity to a zero.

If the gun has a Chicopee Falls, Mass. address it was made between 1947 and 1960. Savage then moved to the modern factory at Westfield, Mass.
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