From October 1968 to March 1988 Savage/Stevens/Fox B doubles are serial numbered in a completely new serial number range beginning at A000001. This was a date code which you will find illustrated in the Savage-Stevens-Fox pages of your Standard Catalog of Firearms.ĥ. From 1948 to 1968 the letter symbols under the frame were changed to a ‘Capital letter with a one or two digit number' in a 1/4″ circle. From 1940 to 1948 no serial numbers were used on doubles, only capital letters, usually in groups of three or four, the letter(s) sometimes enclosed in a circle, along with an inspector's symbol ( a heart, a diamond, a spade or some such ‘shape', on the bottom of the frame behind the hinge pin.Ĥ. They always signified a change in mechanical design or manufacturing process which resulted in an interesting variant.ģ. Letter prefixes crept in on the serial numbers used on both hammer and hammerless doubles from 1913 to 1939. Stevens used plain numbers from their first double in 1878 until 1913.Ģ.
