Newer date codes

[sundance44s]

Does anyone know the newer date codes for these Italian made pistols ........
I have one marked with a box CC I`m thinking it`s around 2007 but need to be sure ...........thanks

 

[arcticap]

Posted by mec:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=3322620&postcount=20

for those without excel, here is the Italian Proofmark/date chart. It covers all Italian revolvers regardless of make including the cartridge guns

Year Symbol Year Symbol
1945 1 1981 AH
1946 2 1982 AI
1947 3 1983 AL
1948 4 1984 AM
1949 5 1985 AN
1950 6 1986 AP
1951 7 1987 AS
1952 8 1988 AT
1953 9 1989 AU
1954 X 1990 AZ
1955 XI 1991 BA
1956 XII 1992 BB
1957 XIII 1993 BC
1958 XIV 1994 BD
1959 XV = BE
1960 XVI 1995 BF
1961 XVII 1996 BH
1962 XVIII 1997 BI
1963 XIX 1998 BL
1964 XX 1999 BM
1965 XXI 2000 BN
1966 XXII 2001 BP
1967 XXIII 2002 BS
1968 XXIV 2003 BT
1969 XXV 2004 BU
1970 XXVI 2005 BZ
1971 XX7 2006 CA
1972 XX8 2007 CB?
1973 XX9 2008 CC?
1974 XXX 2009 CD?
1975 AA 2010 CE
1976 AB
1977 AC
1978 AD
1979 AE
1980 AF

 

[Tommygunn]

CC is 2008.

 

[sundance44s]

Thank you very much guys .

 

[mykeal]

I don't believe 2010 will be CE; while there was an AE (1979) you'll notice that BE was skipped - I think this is because many AE stamps were unclear and became mixed up with AF. I think combinations with 'E' will no longer be used.

The same thing applies to 'J' (confused with 'U'), 'Q' (confused with 'O'), 'R' (confused with 'P') and 'V', 'W' and 'X' (confused with each other and 'U').

 

[Elbert P . Suggins]

I bought a new unfired Uberti 5 1/2 inch 58 Remington 44 cal from a gun shop that only sells new guns just a year ago next month and it is stamped with a BT in a box on the right side of frame in front of the cyinder. Does that mean it was made in 2003 as in accordance with the above mentioned list? And if that is the case how could this gun went unsold for 4 years?

 

[AdmiralB]

how could this gun went unsold for 4 years?

Doesn't mean it sat in that store that long. Probably sat on a distributor's shelf until someone ordered it.

 

[mykeal]

The BT means it was proof tested in Italy in 2003. It may have waited in a warehouse in Italy for shipment to US, then waited in a distributor's warehouse in the US for shipment to a dealer, then waited in the dealer's warehouse for relocation to store stock. In any one or all of those locations it may have sat at the back of the shelf as other, newer guns came and went first. No mystery here. Guns are not perishable stock that require inventory rotation to meet a sell-by date.

 

[Tommygunn]

Yes, in 1993 I bought a Uberti revolver that turned out to have been made in 1989.