Driftwood, you've received excellent information above. However, to add to it, concerning the claim about "other companies putting the Stevens name" on guns . . . that claim is pretty much backwards. What did happen, especially after Savage acquired Stevens, is that Stevens put a host of other names on guns they made, both single shots and double barrels. My father's old Eastern Arms single shot .410 is actually a Stevens. Central Arms, Shapleigh . . . all the various hardware store chains sold guns back then, and most of them sold single shots and doubles that were actually Stevens, but with their name--or at least some name other than Stevens (like Eastern Arms or Central Arms)--on the gun.
