I came across a Stevens model 335 today and was curious about its year of manufacture.It sure looks like an early gun.Thanks for any help.

The Blue Book says they made 67,500, between 1912 and 1931..MDC

I saw an old Stevens today at a gunshow with recessed bolt kind of like a Parker. Is that a model 335?...Geo

The first double I ever owned was a J Stevens Arms & Tool Co gun which I purchased in 1954. Unfortunately I traded it off many years ago, but I "Think" it was a 335. If not it was a 325. It was a plain boxlock with cocking cams in the knuckle operating push rods (I think a certain Co making a "21" copied the design) & a detachable floor plate, nothing at all like later Stevens 311's etal, except for the bolting which was the cross wedge bolting into a slot in the rib extension. It did not have the Parker style hinge pin. Can anyone point out the difference between a 325 & a 335?

The 365, 375, and 385 models had the rescessed hinge pin. I'm pretty sure all of those had Krupp barrels too. Might be other models with the recessed hinge pin.

The No. 335 first appears in Stevens General Catalogue No. 53 around 1910 or 11. It was their entry-level hammerless gun with their new chopperlump barrels and wedge bolting. The higher grades, No. 355, 365, 375 and 385 have a rotary bolt, and the highest three Krupp barrels.

The older J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. doubles had the mono-bloc breech that the barrel tubes screw into. In that series the entry-level was the No. 325 with wedge bolting. Again the higher grades had a rotary bolt and were No. 350 with high pressure steel barrel tubes; the No. 360 with twist barrel tubes; the No. 370 with Dmascus barrel tubes; and the No. 380 with Krupp barrel tubes.

The No. 335 was still in the Stevens line in the 1928 J. Stevens Arms Co. illustrated wholesale price list, but was gone by the 1930.