Ithaca s/n help

[m35a2]

I came across a deal that included an M1 Carbine and a M66 Ithaca 12 ga scatter gun. I can find no info on the web and I did a search here in the SG forum but came up with nada. Does anyone know where I might be able to locate S/N info to determine the year this fine weapon was manufactured?

[Argonaut]

M66's are not "that" old......They were being manufactured in the 60's thrugh the 70's for sure.

[m35a2]

Well, that's more than I knew! I'm used to seeing s/n's upward of 4xxxxx numbers on the LG stuff I have. This seems to be a low number, 1xxxx. Are there any published S/N archives?

[Argonaut]

Ithaca has numbers for there older guns for sure.....The must have them for these too. They are fairly common and not really valuable (yet?) so there is not much published about them yet. I remember selling them new in the late 60's. The sort of phony lever action thing was for "cowboy" marketing. The lever didn't feel really right in opening the action like a conventional top lever did. The long lever was easily bent because it had so much leverage. Send an Email to the factory, they can probably tell you when it was made.

[m35a2]

Thanks, i'll give that a try!