STEVENS FAVORITE Question

capgun

May 14, 2011 08:01

I have a Stevens Favorite .22 #677. How do I tell if it is an antique?

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  capgun

  May 14, 2011 08:01

  I am researching a Stevens Favorite rifle. I did a search on gungroker but didn't find what I have. This model has a nickel plated receiver. other than that it looks just like the ones on the auction side. the barrel says J. Stevens A&t co chicoppe falls sept. _?_ 94. under the receiver it says u 626. My question, is the nickel plating aftermarket work or did Stevens produce some with nickel receivers?

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  hrf

  May 14, 2011 08:31

  Unless it's the first model with removable side plate made only 1893-94, it probably isn't.

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  awinds

  May 14, 2011 10:47

  I have # 756, and it's just a shooter.

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  joel_black

  May 14, 2011 12:31

  Stevens used 3 digits combined with a letter for their serial #s.

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  MMMarvis

  May 14, 2011 14:51

  I don't know what makes a antique.
  
  But they quit making them in 1939. If it has a circle on the top left side with svg in it, it was made after Savage bought Stevens 1921-1939.
  If its Stevens its pushing 100 years old any way you look at it.
  
  From what i understand the serial numbers were haphazard at best and no records survive.
  
  This is the best web site i know
  http://www.wisnersinc.com/additional_info/stevens_favorite_rifles.htm
  
  Mine is a Y765 and probably closer to 1920 Grand Pa was old.

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  MMMarvis

  May 14, 2011 14:53

  Oh and a full Octagonal barrel 22lr

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  slumlord44

  May 14, 2011 17:09

  It has to be manufactured before 1898 to be an antique and while it it possible that an early non-sideplate Favorite was made before 1898, without serial # records it is impossible to prove it.

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  hrf

  May 14, 2011 18:10

  quote:Originally posted by slumlord44
  It has to be manufactured before 1898 to be an antique and while it it possible that an early non-sideplate Favorite was made before 1898, without serial # records it is impossible to prove it.
  
  
  Actually, it's before 1 Jan 1899 in USA, but that doesn't change anything in this case.
  
  (I think pre-1898 is correct in Canada)

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  MMMarvis

  May 14, 2011 18:40

  Its 25 years for cars.
  
  But it is trickie for guns, it all comes down to paper work.
  
  example, some Finnish M39 (Ukko-Pekka) Mosin-Nagant rifles with hexagonal profile receivers are considered antique because some were built on receivers dated pre-1899, even though the rifle itself was adopted in 1939.
  Many of these were assembled using a mix of old round and "hex" receivers from then on, until as late as the 1970s.
  
  To be identified as pre-1899, however, Mosin-Nagants that have been re-barreled must be disassembled to see the date stamps on their tangs.

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