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Old 12-24-2014, 09:45 PM
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thanks so much for that info! My dad loved this gun. At the time 9mm was hard to come by in VN. He ended up using french 9mm smg ammo from the mat 49, left over from French presence.



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Originally Posted by lhump1961 View Post
That is quite a history on your 39 and it looks fantastic for so many miles. The SCSW doesn't have particular dates for pre-1970 serial numbers so an exact year is difficult. I can tell you that they were started with #1001 in 1954 and ran to #115000 by 1970 when the A prefix started.

So all things being equal and your number being about 25% into production numbers I would guess around the late 50's and depending on annual production perhaps as late as 1960...I wouldn't guess it to be much later than that.

Nice 39 you have with a great family history! Hang on to it and enjoy.
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