Add up monthly production and in March it comes to 280,000. Serial number range for 1910, 273,001 to 294,000: for a total of 21,000 guns made, Divide that by 12 comes out to 1,750 guns a month. According to that listing, your gun was made in March 1910. It ain't the best in the world but it's all we have. I'm sure he took the total number of guns made and divided that by the number of years a particular gun was made and worked out the average number of guns made each year. Vorisek re-established the serial number-year made tables during his research for his book "The Breech Loading Shotgun In America 1865 to 1940. All the records from Crescent Fire Arms Company were lost or destroyed in a scrap paper drive during World War Two.
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