“It’s important for us to reference the original record for every factory letter and serial number search we do.”ĭanny Michael and Jesi Bennett look at Savage records in the McCracken Research library.įirearms Members and Records Office customers who want information need only provide a manufacturer, model, and specific serial number. “You can find books out there with typed charts and summaries, but the further away you get from the primary source material, the more human error you introduce,” Jesi notes. Not all manufacturers included customer information in their records, but Ithaca often did.” True to the originalįor each lookup, Records Office staff and volunteers reference digital scans of the original records or the original records themselves, which are housed onsite in the Center’s McCracken Research Library. When you have a name, the history becomes more personal. Maybe it was their great-grandfather or a general store they remember hearing about in their hometown. “It’s always exciting to come across names we recognize in the records, but my guys love to know who owned their gun first even if it wasn’t someone famous. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com.įirearms Records Specialist Jesi Bennett, Assistant Records Specialist Angela Bertalot, and the volunteers of the Cody Firearms Records Office work behind the scenes to generate factory letters and serial number searches for enthusiasts around the world. Cabinet photos of Phoebe Ann Moses-Butler, better known by her stage name Annie Oakley, and her husband, sharpshooter Frank E.
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