My first attempt at this, newbee.
I have just gained ownership to octagon barrel Marlin 39. It is pretty rough and I would like to clean it all up, remove rust & reblue, refinish wood etc. but I can't seem to find the Mfgr year for sure. Do not want to degrade anything if it is in any way collectable. There is a number on the tang under lever, "12247". I did find one site and punched in this number and it came back with a year mfgr of 1886??.. could that be possible. The tang behind hammer has Marlin with MOD 39 stamped under it. The left side of barrel just behind sight has 22 S-L & L-R with an arrow stamped facing right & left on it. My other Marlin 39A has a "D712" stamped on it and was easy to determine the year as "1946" but this guy has me stuck. All comments will be greatly accepted and needed.
Thanks guys
I have just gained ownership to octagon barrel Marlin 39. It is pretty rough and I would like to clean it all up, remove rust & reblue, refinish wood etc. but I can't seem to find the Mfgr year for sure. Do not want to degrade anything if it is in any way collectable. There is a number on the tang under lever, "12247". I did find one site and punched in this number and it came back with a year mfgr of 1886??.. could that be possible. The tang behind hammer has Marlin with MOD 39 stamped under it. The left side of barrel just behind sight has 22 S-L & L-R with an arrow stamped facing right & left on it. My other Marlin 39A has a "D712" stamped on it and was easy to determine the year as "1946" but this guy has me stuck. All comments will be greatly accepted and needed.
Thanks guys
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