I did that. There are 7 catalogs per year and the majority of catalogs with High Standard guns ran from 1946/7 through 1967. That is two stacks of catalogs higher than I can reach. Then I discovered that Sears had at least a dozen catalog centers and that all the catalogs were not the same - it could and did vary by the catalog center. Rifles ran from 1950 through 1967 and included both pump and semi-auto rimfire rifles and bolt action centerfire rifles. Note that there were usually three or four specific variations of the rimfire rifles.

This is an old chart I made and is now a bit obsolete as research has continued.

https://histandard.info/SCRATCH6/Sears Rifles.pdf

 

John, thank you. Makes no numerical sense (at least to me) why the #25 , introduced in '59 was numbered lowest of the semi-autos while the #30, being perhaps the first sa was introduced in '50. I have printed the chart and can refer back to it as I accumulate the rest of the sa's.

 

First you need to determine whether my information is BS or not. The Internet is full of BS. I suspect the BS overwhelms the good data.

Of course it makes little sense. It was determined by Sears Marketing. High Standard had design series numbers that they used for the Sears guns but mostly only in Engineering. The High Standard design series numbers were in numerical order. The guns had 1) a Sears assigned Model number, 2) a Sears assigned reference number 583.xxx, 3) a Sears assigned catalog number for the basic gun (other catalog numbers were used for the basic gun with specific included accessories), and 4) the High Standard design series number.

Note that the Sears Reference number changed with changes in the gun while the catalog number and Sears Model Number did not.

Note also that there is a special subset of these rifles. Sears had exclusive right to all 583 guns and High Standard was selling none of these designs. Of course there is one known exception. There were catalog/price lists for these guns with High Standard markings that were offered only to U.S. Military personnel over seas. Since they were exported they would have had serial numbners. Very few of these "overseas" guns are encountered. The Model 10 Shotgun was an exception in that from the beginning there had been other customers.