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Help identify some guns

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My father-in-law passed away in December. He had a small collection of guns that he accumulated over the years. Included in his collection are two H&R 922 revolvers. Does anyone know of a place where I can lookup the serial numbers to determine the age of these guns? One serial number is R66196. The other is either I84602 or 184602. He had several small caliber guns; a Jennings J-22, 2 Raven 25 Auto pistols, a Beretta 3032 Tomcat and a S&W 32 Long Barrel OTO.
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One serial number is R66196.---- 1955

The other is either I84602 or 184602----- most likely an I which is 1948 as I did not see any H&R's that started with a number

The Jennings and Raven are basically throw away guns, the original Saturday night specials that have major reliability issues, I have a Raven that I am waiting for a gun buy back to happen so I can get $100 for a $25.00 gun....
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Thanks. He showed me one of the Ravens and it clearly said Colt Arms on the side. Did Colt resell them? Did Colt make a Raven? These are NIB autos.
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im not sure if this helps, but if you scroll down this page to the 3rd poster, there is some info posted that may help?
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I am not aware of Colt making a "Raven" although they could have, typically Ravens were made by Phoenix Arms. You peaked my curiosity so I spent some time with my friend Google and could not find anything on Colt Raven. Hopefully a Colt expert will chime in...
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Salty1 wrote:I am not aware of Colt making a "Raven" although they could have, typically Ravens were made by Phoenix Arms. You peaked my curiosity so I spent some time with my friend Google and could not find anything on Colt Raven. Hopefully a Colt expert will chime in...
I've asked my SIL to physically examine the gun. We'll see what she says.
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