If you were able to go to the Savage web site,they should be able to assist you with determining the age of your model 487t.
If it has both the Stevens and Savage names on it, then it was manufactured after 1945 and before 1969.
Westfield, MA
Made by the Stevens division of Savage Arms between 1931 and 1948.
These were manufactured from 1926 to 1945. If it is marked with both the Savage and Stevens names, it was probably made after 1941.
Not if they were manufactured prior to 1969.
Manufactured between 1933 and 1945.
The Stevens Model 125, a 22 caliber Bolt-Action, Single-Shot rifle was manufactured between the years of 1898 and 1912 in Westfield, Massachusetts by The Stevens Arms Co.If you Have a Stevens Model 125 with Savage also on the barrel than you have a gun manufactured by The Savage Arms Co. and it would have been made after 1920 when Savage Arms purchased Stevens Arms.I have a Stevens Savage 22 bolt action single shot 22 rifle model 125 and have yet to find the date of manufacture for it. wwworth
Dave - Manufactured by the Stevens division of Savage Arms, sometime between 1920 and 1948.
If you check the blue book you will find that it was manufactured between 1926 and 1935. The Savage Arms website will tell you how to contact an independent Stevens historian who MAY be able to narrow that date range for a fee.
Stevens was founded in 1864 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. Savage in Utica, New York, in 1894. Savage purchased the Stevens plant and name in 1920 and continued to make guns with the Stevens name in the Chicopee Falls facility until the late 1940's. The Stevens line was discontinued in 1991, but revived in 1998 or 1999 on a few "commemorative" models.
Stevens guns were made at the plant in Chicopee Falls, Mass. Guns made from 1864 to 1886 will be marked J. STEVENS & CO. From 1886 to 1916 they were marked J. STEVENS A & T CO or J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO. No Stevens firearms were manufactured from 1916 until 1920 when Savage Arms purchased the facilities and name. From 1920 until 1942 (or '48) Savage marked guns J. STEVENS ARMS CO and after that simply STEVENS or STEVENS/SAVAGE. The Stevens name was discontinued in 1991.
your savage Stevens model 52a was made between 1933-1937 in the amount of 88,000 guns.