Ordinarily I'm not interested in the makers stamp but my one, a carbine in 22 Hi Power has no designation stamped on it, the only ID it has is Savage hi Pressure Steel stamped on the barrel together with OFF and a direction arrow under the fore end and the rear sight is stamped Savage arms. It's the take down version.
There are British proof marks and all the main parts bear the same serial # 206XXX.
It has no checkering, steel shotgun buttplate and the fore sight blade is held in with a screw. The ramp for the foresight appears to be machined integral with the barrel and it would seem the receiver was originally color case hardened, there is no blue anywhere there and the lever has 100% case harden colors where it is enclosed inside the action.
The brass cartridge carrier is stamped 22.
Can anyone help? I'm in the UK btw and these guns have little value over here.
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Your rifle is a Savage Model 1899H Featherweight, probably made in the fall of 1919. The pre-WWI model 1899H's had hard rubber buttplates, but in 1919 when they restarted production it went to steel buttplates.
The Model 1899H was the only model that the 22HP was offered in until fall of 1921, when they expanded models that both it and the 250-3000 could be purchased in.
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