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CZ factory records
Who holds this maker's production records today, whether a serial table exists at all, and what it costs to have the archive read them.
CZ maintains its production records but does not publish them as a browsable table, so there is no self-service route to a year from a serial. A number of CZ pistols carry their own year code in the proof marks, which is a different and more reliable route than the serial range — and one that is easy to miss if you are looking only at the number.
Who holds the records today
Covers no browsable published table
Serial table published by the maker?
No.
No browsable manufacturer table.
Archive letter
Cost: free
Waiting time: by enquiry
Observed 2026-10-14 — confirm with the archive before ordering.
Can a serial number date a CZ?
From the serial number alone, generally no — and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in this site. There is no published table to compare the number against, so any year you find online for this maker comes from a secondary reconstruction, and those are exactly as reliable as their author.
Dating then rests on what is on the gun: the maker's marking and address, the model and its catalogued period, proof marks and their era, patent dates, and the manufacturer's own model history.
Date a firearm by its serial number
The lookup covers only makers that publish their own browsable chart — and it says which, and cites the threshold behind every result.
Open the serial number lookup