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High Standard Serial Number Lookup
Enter a High Standard serial number to estimate the year it was made — using an author's published transcription of the High Standard regular-series chart. It is an explicit first–last serial range, model by model and year by year (43 documented ranges, 1932–1975): your serial is matched against the interval High Standard published for it, never guessed. Every result cites the chart row it came from.
What this chart actually covers.
This chart dates only the regular serial series — from serial 5,000, shipped October 15 1932, through the 1975 year-end 2,500,810 — and its dates are shipment-year estimates: the source states guns were assembled roughly in serial order but shipped out of order, some staying in inventory weeks, months or years. Pistols with letter-prefixed serials (G…, ML…, MLG…, SH…, 1975–1984) belong to concurrent series the source never labels, and this chart does not date them. The 1971 printed total exceeds the 1972 one, so both years answer as one span — nothing was repaired.
Look up your High Standard serial number
Enter the number exactly as stamped — including any letter prefix.
Open the High Standard serial lookup →How dating a High Standard by serial number works
Most serial charts give one number per year. High Standard is different, and using the wrong method gives the wrong year — so it is worth knowing what the chart actually asserts.
An explicit serial range per model and year
For every charted model year High Standard publishes the first and last serial number of each year, for example a bracketed interval per year. That is the most precise form of this data: your serial is not merely compared against a boundary, it falls inside a documented interval. Where two published ranges overlap, the tool gives you the span rather than picking one.
Serial numbers are not a factory letter.
The chart gives the last serial recorded for each production year, model by model.
A result sitting on a year boundary is an estimate from that chart, not a certificate.
Which High Standard models this covers
The published chart covers 1 models across 43 ranges, and every one of them is listed on this page. There is no model beyond this table with data to search.
If your model is not listed, the published chart we hold does not cover it — the tool will say so rather than guess.
Published High Standard serial ranges
43 documented ranges across 1 models, from an author's published transcription of the High Standard regular-series chart. Transcribed one row per chart section, exactly as published — the coverage note above states what is not here.
| Model | Year | Serial range |
|---|---|---|
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1932 | 5000–5102 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1933 | 5103–6567 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1934 | 6568–8313 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1935 | 8314–11651 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1936 | 11652–18751 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1937 | 18752–30026 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1938 | 30027–39430 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1939 | 39431–50619 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1940 | 50620–70715 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1941 | 70716–91986 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1942 | 91987–104520 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1943 | 104521–115423 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1944 | 115424–135659 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1945 | 135660–145817 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1946 | 145818–174194 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1947 | 174195–233402 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1948 | 233403–301349 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1949 | 301350–326123 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1950 | 326124–335693 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1951 | 335694–356899 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1952 | 356900–357295 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1953 | 357296–442984 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1954 | 442985–475186 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1955 | 475187–508613 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1956 | 508614–652405 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1957 | 652406–776129 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1958 | 776130–913111 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1959 | 913112–1044802 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1960 | 1044803–1147641 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1961 | 1147642–1224652 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1962 | 1224653–1285049 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1963 | 1285050–1353764 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1964 | 1353765–1418870 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1965 | 1418871–1507541 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1966 | 1507542–1610707 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1967 | 1610708–1853513 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1968 | 1853514–2030404 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1969 | 2030405–2172356 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1970 | 2172357–2232503 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1971–1972 | 2232504–2356207 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1973 | 2356208–2424175 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1974 | 2424176–2469497 |
| Regular series (1932-1975) | 1975 | 2469498–2500810 |
Questions
Why does my serial number not give a year?
It falls in a gap between the published ranges, or in a model year the chart does not cover — the tool will show the nearest documented range instead of guessing. A public lookup should not invent an answer.
How accurate is this?
The ranges are reproduced exactly as published in an author's published transcription of the High Standard regular-series chart. That is not a factory letter — for a definitive date, the factory records are the authority.
Where does the data come from?
the High Standard history chart at firearmsguide.com — An author's published High Standard chart (firearmsguide.com) — not a maker-published page. The tool is built from exactly what that chart prints; the source's own shipment dates are kept, including the non-monotone 1971 total.
Records & archives
A chart says what the factory serials mean. Our records note for High Standard says who actually holds the factory records today, whether a letter of authenticity can be ordered, and what it costs and takes — observed, not assumed.
Other makes
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