Winchester Model 64 serial numbers by year
The Winchester Model 64 is a lever-action rifle built on the Model 94/1894 action as an updated replacement for the Model 55.
- Produced:
- 1932–1961, 1972–1973
- Action:
- lever-action
What year was your Model 64 made?
Where the serial number is
Bottom of the receiver, ahead of the lever, as on the parent Model 94.
Why the sources give different years
The Model 64 never had a serial sequence of its own. Winchester numbered it inside the Model 94 series from the start (manufacture began in late 1932, the January 1933 catalog introduced it), so a Model 64 serial number is dated with the Model 94 tables. The tables below are the Model 94 tables for the years the Model 64 was in production.
Nobody kept one official list of which Winchester Model 64 serial numbers were made in which year. The dates come from the tables in George Madis's Winchester books, compiled decades after the guns were made, and a list typed up by Winchester's customer-service desk, which mixes real records with estimates. For some serial numbers these sources are years apart, so this page shows what each one says instead of picking one.
Madis vs. factory dates lists every model where the sources part ways, with a real serial number from each.
Sources for this model: Madis/legacy year-end table · Winchester customer-service list (2012)
Winchester Model 64 serial numbers by year
The Model 1894/94 serial number chart for the years the Model 64 was in production, one table per source. Each row gives the serial numbers that source assigns to a year. Find the row your number falls in.
A row marked “sources differ” is a serial range that another table on this page dates to a different year.
George Madis's published tables
From George Madis's Winchester books, a collector reference compiled decades after production. The figures are year-end estimates, not counts from the factory books.
Cited as: Madis/legacy year-end table
| Year | Serial numbers |
|---|---|
| 1932 | 1,084,157 – 1,087,836 |
| 1933 | 1,087,837 – 1,089,271 |
| 1934 | 1,089,272 – 1,091,192 |
| 1935 | 1,091,193 – 1,099,608 |
| 1936sources differ | 1,099,609 – 1,112,194 |
| 1937sources differ | 1,112,195 – 1,138,781 |
| 1938sources differ | 1,138,782 – 1,169,370 |
| 1939sources differ | 1,169,371 – 1,197,211 |
| 1940sources differ | 1,197,212 – 1,238,584 |
| 1941sources differ | 1,238,585 – 1,287,468 |
| 1942–1949 | 1,287,469 – 1,626,100 |
| 1950 | 1,626,101 – 1,724,295 |
| 1953sources differ | 1,724,296 – 1,999,999 |
| 1954 | 2,000,000 – 2,071,100 |
| 1955 | 2,071,101 – 2,145,296 |
| 1956 | 2,145,297 – 2,225,000 |
| 1957 | 2,225,001 – 2,290,296 |
| 1958 | 2,290,297 – 2,365,887 |
| 1959 | 2,365,888 – 2,410,555 |
| 1960 | 2,410,556 – 2,469,821 |
| 1961 | 2,469,822 – 2,500,000 |
| 1972 | 3,557,386 – 3,806,499 |
| 1973 | 3,806,500 – 3,929,364 |
- 1942–1949: The 1942–48 row in the older published table has no serial number. It only says "legacy table; see wartime correction above." This row therefore covers the whole gap up to the next number the table gives.
- 1953: George Madis's table jumps straight from 1950 at 1,724,295 to 1953 at 1,999,999, with no rows for the years in between. This row rests on the 1953 last serial number alone, and no earlier year is printed for it.
Winchester's own customer-service list (2012)
A year-by-year list Winchester's customer-service desk typed up to answer owners' letters. Partly real records and partly estimates, as the list itself says.
Cited as: Winchester customer-service list (2012)
| Year | Serial numbers |
|---|---|
| 1932 | 1,084,157 – 1,087,836 |
| 1933 | 1,087,837 – 1,089,270 |
| 1934 | 1,089,271 – 1,091,190 |
| 1935 | 1,091,191 – 1,099,605 |
| 1936 | 1,099,606 – 1,100,065 |
| 1937sources differ | 1,100,066 – 1,100,679 |
| 1938sources differ | 1,100,680 – 1,100,915 |
| 1939sources differ | 1,100,916 – 1,101,051 |
| 1940sources differ | 1,101,052 – 1,142,423 |
| 1941sources differ | 1,142,424 – 1,191,307 |
| 1942sources differ | 1,191,308 – 1,221,289 |
| 1943–1948 | 1,221,290 – 1,500,000 |
| 1949 | 1,500,001 – 1,626,100 |
| 1950 | 1,626,101 – 1,724,295 |
| 1951sources differ | 1,724,296 – 1,819,800 |
| 1952sources differ | 1,819,801 – 1,910,000 |
| 1953 | 1,910,001 – 2,000,000 |
| 1954 | 2,000,001 – 2,071,100 |
| 1955 | 2,071,101 – 2,145,296 |
| 1956 | 2,145,297 – 2,225,000 |
| 1957 | 2,225,001 – 2,290,296 |
| 1958 | 2,290,297 – 2,365,887 |
| 1959 | 2,365,888 – 2,410,555 |
| 1960 | 2,410,556 – 2,469,821 |
| 1961 | 2,469,822 – 2,500,000 |
| 1972 | 3,557,386 – 3,806,499 |
| 1973 | 3,806,500 – 3,929,364 |
- 1943–1948: The list records no figure for 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 or 1947. This row covers those years up to the next year the list does record.
What to know about Model 64 serial numbers
- Model 64s were numbered in the Model 94 sequence without differentiation. The Winchester Arms Collectors Association's survey finds them interspersed from about 1,085,230 to 2,189,618. The tables date the serial number; they cannot confirm that a given number belongs to a Model 64.
- Regular production stopped in January 1957. Rifles built from leftover parts were assembled through 1961, so a 1957–1961 date is consistent with one of those late rifles.
- The 1972–1973 reissue (sold as the Model 64A, .30-30 only, about 8,250 made) is shown against the post-1963 Model 94 tables, which restart at 2,700,000. Our references do not state which sequence the reissue was numbered in, so treat a 1972–1973 result as provisional.
- The Cody Firearms Museum's Model 94 records run only to serial 1,352,066, and they record the date the number was stamped, not how the rifle was built. A factory letter is therefore possible for early Model 64s only.
- The traditional production total of 66,783 is not a factory figure. Because the sequence was shared, no secure Model 64 count exists; the collectors' association survey suggests production may have exceeded 150,000.
- Dating by features: the 20-inch barrel option dates from August 1933; the .219 Zipper chambering was introduced in 1937 and was still listed in October 1946, with surveyed rifles into the mid-1950s; the uncataloged .32-40 and .38-55 rifles were made through 1937.
- Winchester's Miroku-made Model 64 of 2011 and the 250-rifle Cabela's issue of 2015 are Angle Eject guns numbered outside these tables.
Related models, and why
Shared serial sequences, successors, and look-alikes — each link says why it is here, straight from the record notes.
Other Winchester lever-action rifles
Winchester rifles that never had a serial number
These have no serial number to look up. Their pages explain why, and how to date one from its features.
Want proof on paper? Order a factory letter
The Cody Firearms Museum holds Winchester’s original records and, for a fee, will search them for your serial number and send you a letter with the recorded dates and details. It is the closest thing to the original factory entry you can own, and it is what auction houses and appraisers accept.
Its records cover Model 64 serial numbers: 1–1,352,066 (the Model 94 sequence). A number outside that coverage cannot be lettered.
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