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I have two baker shotguns. Could some one tell me when they were made.

12 gauge (serial number 49850)

16 guage (serial number 2437f)

Thank You

Here you go from "Guns Illustrated" 1997 by Daryl Hallquist and Don Hardin. PLEASE NOTE A and B production started in 1892. The 'F' identifies your 16 as a post-1919 Folsom gun.

Drew, you are a good researcher, but some of the info in that article is not correct. Part of editing problems and part of republishing bad info. I don't even remember what was in that article, but here goes on rainbow's question. As a caution, when asking for serial no. info, one needs to give more info on the guns,so if the rainbow person is interested, maybe a gun description and pic would help him.

First gun, 49,850-------could be a single trap, a Batavia Leader, or a couple of others. What is it?

Second gun 2437F---------could be a Batavia Leader, or maybe a Black Beauty Special, or a Paragon. What is it ?

Time for an update Daryl!

Thanks for the fast information.

Both are Batavia Leaders.

Thank you

Jim Borg

1918 and 1922 plus or minus a year or two.

How about a Batavia Leader 12 ga. twist barrels; ser. no. 1001xx? Thanks

Patriot, that gun is in 1909 , give or take a year or so. No records exist, but sometimes there are testimonials, or old letters from the Factory etc. that give us clues.

Thank you Daryl. I know the gun was in the 1904 Sears Cat. said, 'nitro proofed' twist barrels.