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Springfield Armory 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.
For US military arms made at Springfield Armory the question is different in kind. There is no factory letter to buy, because the records are government records, and the ones that survive rarely connect a serial to a unit. The route collectors actually use is the Springfield Research Service, a compiled index of documented serials, and the Freedom of Information route for anything still held federally. The US small arms registry itself only begins in 1975, so a wartime rifle is usually outside it. It is worth being blunt: for most M1 Garands the service history is simply not reconstructable.
Who holds the records today
Covers US military records, largely not serial-searchable
Serial table published by the maker?
No.
No serial-to-year table in the sense used elsewhere; military production is organised by blocks and drawing numbers.
Archive letter
none — the records are federal, not corporate
Observed 2026-10-14 — confirm with the archive before ordering.
Can a serial number date a Springfield Armory?
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