Hi y'all. Inherited an M1 carbine, and got to looking, and there's no serial or makers mark on the receiver. The barrel has Inland GM stamp just aft of the front sight, with a 2-44 date. The underside of the receiver has a 5 digit serial beginning with 79.
This thing is on the surface bereft of the types of markings on my dad's Garand, for example.
No evidence of grinding or other removal. So, whut the heck do I got???
Buggboy, You may just have one of the earliest carbines Inland carbines made. According to what I can find, Inland was issued six different blocks of serial numbers. The first being 11 - 999999; the others were significantly higher. Whether the 79XXX is the serial number, I can't tell you. Like M14man stated most production receivers are marked with the make and serial number on the top rear of the receiver and usually are covered by the "adjustable" sights. I take it that yours has the adjustable sights instead of the early flip sight. Do you have photos?
There were at least 10 companies that made commercial carbine that used GI parts. That is the big problem with identifying Commercial carbines. Could be Plainfield or Rowan, or Alpine, or MOCCO, or......even the early Universal.
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Plainfield and Universal had their name on the front receiver ring as did most commercials. There was no room for the manufacturers name on GI carbines due to the required model and U.S. markings on that front ring. I think the man who wrote the original question never came back to liik at our answers.
