Original Remington New Model Info

[smd189]

Is there a way to trace Remington New Model history, production info, shipping info, etc based on SN#?  Where can one find this info.  Thank you.

Shawn

[Books OToole]

The Remington Co. built quality products but kept lousy records.

Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Arms is the best single source for Reming ton information.

I believe the is a Remington book by Karr that is pretty good. [I am not home at my library so that is a best guess.]

Books

[St. George]

Tracing some production history is easy - but only if the weapon went to the Government - and Flayderman doesn't touch on that much.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[smd189]

If the gun went to the Gov't which I would assume mine did since it has a cartouche on the left grip where would I begin searching?  Also, the SN# range is in the 130,000's.  This seems too late to be for the Civil War, so where would this have gone?  It is not a conversion.  Thanks.

Shawn

[Montana Slim]

The cartouche may be the best clue to approximate it's date (range) of acceptance....

Slim

[Arizona Trooper]

The better guns continued to be delivered after April of 1865, but still, 130K is very late for a CW New Army. Maybe the grips have been replaced. For a reference book, I would recommend Don Ware's "Remington Army and Navy Pistols 1861-1888" published by University of New Mexico Press. It has tables of approximate production dates vs. serial number. Overall, it is an outstanding book on these guns.

A few years ago, some guys from the Remington Society were allowed to dig through Remington's records, but the books didn't go back to the Civil War, and as mentioned by Books O'Toole, they aren't in the best of shape. You could try Springfield Research Service. If your Remmy was delivered and issued, it might show up. Unfortunately, most of the late production sat in storage until sold off surplus, so never showed up in unit returns.