My brother has a Marlin 89C rifle he bought over 40 years ago. Unfortunately, it sat in a closet for a long time and rusted. He has cleaned some of the rust off but there are still patches of it on the barrel. The question is this: Does anyone know, or guess logically, if any 89C copies have a roll-stamp on the barrel some place with a year-of-manufacture code...like the two letter codes that were put on some Marlins in the 1960s? At one place where the barrel rear joins the stock wood it appears on this one that perhaps something was/is stamped in the metal..but cannot tell for sure and I have found that these two letter roll stamps are often incomplete or lightly imprinted so not all the information is there. You get the idea. Please help me out. Thanks so much.
BTW...according to the Brophy reference the 89C was sold from 1953-1961.
BTW...according to the Brophy reference the 89C was sold from 1953-1961.
