The Baker Gun & Forging Co. added a lower priced line of sidelock Batavia guns in 1903, with serial numbers starting at 75000. The Batavia guns didn't have the hammer block safety or the transverse drawblock through the barrel lug that mated into recesses in the frame, of the graded Baker Guns. The Batavia Leader had Twist steel barrels, The Batavia Damascus had Damascus barrels and the Batavia Special had Homotensile steel barrels. Baker Gun & Forging Co. dropped the Batavia line about 1915 and replaced them with a gun called the Black Beauty with steel barrels and the lockplates and frame with a black-oxide finish. Serial numbers of the Batavia line seem to run up to 161000. In that no records are known to survive, 75000 to 161000 and 1903 to 1915, so make a calculated guess. After the H & D Folsom acquisition of Baker they reintroduced a Batavia Leader with a color case hardened frame and lock plates with steel barrels, kind of similar to the old Batavia Special.
