Good day,

I would like to find out what the import stamps indicate. Perhaps someone can tell me and also tell me where I can find out more about the system.

Ser # is 185XXX. Stamps are on bottom of barrel just in front of ejector rod. CAISTAIRVT. The letters I have as I do not have a bar on top & bottom so I am assuming they are an "I", but we all know about assume. I logged in some time ago about this firearm. Sent it off to be blued and they misplaced the cylinder. Finally got it back, not blued. Could not resolve, so I cold blued it. Used a Brownell product, Oxpho-blue. Great product.

Thanks for any help I get.

CAI ST ALB VT. CAI was the importer. They were located in St. Albans, Vermont.

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David Wilson

Century Arms International, St. Albans, Vermont

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Pisgah

Thanks for the quick reply, appreciate it.

RnGrnwd

That serial number puts the revolver in the "first group" of 25,000 revolvers. Per Roy Jinks, these serial numbers range from 181983 to 207043, and they were "normally shipped in lots of 1,000 units" starting in February of 1938.

So yours should have shipped sometime in early to mid 1938.

There was a second group of 12,000 that shipped in 1946.

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