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Winchester Model 88 Date of Mfg ?

MFI
Serial number 557**. Anyone know what year she was made ? thanks..
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  • ATF
    1958 should be right.[:)]

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  • hidebuyer
    Don't know who ATF is but he is wrong . Serial # 55XXX would be a 1956 model in the Winchester model 88.

    Robert V. Reyan
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  • 2xbyu
    I don't know, my book also has 1958, but......

    arms collectors DOM has it at 1957.....

    http://armscollectors.com/sn/windates.htm

    Between '56-'58[:)]
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  • MFI
    Well I have two books placing it in 1958 but have a 88 collector who owns 49 of these telling me its a 1956 what the hell is up ?
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  • Talking Head
    "The Winchester Book" by Madis says 1958.

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  • ATF
    quote:Originally posted by Talking Head
    "The Winchester Book" by Madis says 1958.

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    I got my info from the same book but, I just looked it up in the Blue Book Twenty Frist Edition and it says 1957 and the same in The Blue Book Seventeenth Edition.I also looked it up in the 2004 Standard Catalog of Firearms and it also says 1957 ??? [:(]

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  • ATF
    quote:Originally posted by hidebuyer
    Don't know who ATF is but he is wrong . Serial # 55XXX would be a 1956 model in the Winchester model 88.

    Robert V. Reyan

    Robert where did you get your infomation?
    [:)]

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  • JimmyJack
    Out of curiosity, I have 554**, where does this one fall? I also have its mate, new in the box, never fired, not for sale.
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  • Bert H.
    Hello All...

    I have stated this several times thus far on this forum... Madis' serial number information is not accurate, nor is the serial number information found on armscollectors.com.

    Now that I have reiterated that, the very first Model 88 was received in the warehouse on May 9th, 1955. Serial number 4 was the first Model 88 shipped (May 18, 1955). In all likleyhood, serial number 554xx and 557xx were manufactured in late 1957 or possibly early 1958... but there are no surviving records to confirm that. I sincerely doubt that Winchester had yet produced 55,000 Model 88s by the end of the year 1956, so I have to disagree with Robert in his ascertion of that year.

    Bert H.

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  • 2xbyu
    Must agree with Bert H. on the Madis info. This is my Madis info, I doubt that Winchester made exactly 18,378 M-88s each year for 1955, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, and 61. Looks to me like an "average per year" of the total 88s made thru that time period.[?][?][?]

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