Wikipedia says version 3 post-1909 smokeless have double-latch top breaks – Mine is single latch.
I have a 16g Champion serial 8404 (RCXC), any idea what the numbers stand for and when it was made? To add to the variety of serial numbers I recently acquired a Montgomery Ward Western Field 20 gauge, serial number 32nnnXF. I called Iver Johnson and got no help ….# 25888. any help with Manufacture year and other info. a friend has a Champion single Barrel shot gun 12 ga. I have reason to believe this may have been my Grandfathers gun who lived in Illinois and was killed before I was born 1942. The forearm wood was fatter on the right side, and the plastic hinge plate on the forearm consequently was offset from the receiver. 410s offered in 3-inch clambering were marketed about 1935. If so, can someone tell me the age of the shotgun? John, it’s my understanding that the first Iver Johnson Champion.
On the top of the barrel rib there is a serial number, which usually doesn't begins with a letter code but sometimes does.
