After Marlin Arms and Marlin-Rockwell took over the company in 1916, to keep employees busy between war contracts, they continued to manufacture sporting arms but utilized a new serial numbering system. They usually have a 4 digit number or a letter prefix along with the 4 digit number.
No Marlin Model '93's are known to have a 6 digit serial number. I also have a copy of his notes that pretty much confirm this information. If you will look him up and some of his posts, Parley Baer was tracking serial numbers of guns during this era. We also know that a serial number in the 442,000 range was shipped in the "fall of 1913" per the 1915 Marlin catalog because the gun mentioned in the catalog is known. We also know now that the serial numbers ran above 450,000 ( I have Brophy's notes he kept on known serial numbers ). We know that Marlin started with serial number 1 and used numbers consecutively for all models up to 355,500 in December of 1906. It is long and complicated, but here goes.
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