Early Model 11
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Re: Early Model 11
The John M. Browning designed Remington Autoloading Gun was introduced in 1905. Sometime after Marcellus Hartly Dodge combined his two companies as Remington Arms - Union Metallic Cartridge Co., in 1911, they began calling the gun the Model No. 11. From the research done on these guns the published serial number chronology would place your gun in mid-1906. In that condition with that cracked, repaired and waaaayyyyy over sanded stock, that gun would languish in the pawn shops around here at $150. A gun like that you could get more parting it out than selling the complete gun.
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Re: Early Model 11
Because the wood has been sanded way below the surface of the upper and lower tangs. The wood should stand about 1/32 inch above the metal. As far as the date your gun was made, I have no opinion, and I certainly didn't make it up. The Remington Arms Co., Inc. you spoke to today is five companies removed from when this gun was made. They are interested in selling new guns. I went by the serial number chronology in James Tipton's definitive article on these guns, published in The Remington Society of America Journal, 2nd Quarter 2000.