The first letter of the two letter code I assume is for the month A being January through L being December. I have kept a loose collection of serial numbers and barrel codes from various gun auction sites and my hypothesis seems to be correct. I believe in 1968 a Q was placed on in front of the Serial numbers for the 300 and for the 200 a letter P. With 1964 the last letter being J for 1964, K for 1965 and alphabetically through X being 1978 the last year of Ted Williams 200/300 production.
I have come up with a hypothesis on the two letter barrel codes starting with sales in 1964 of the Ted Williams 200 and 300 shotguns. What were the serial numbers on the Ted Williams and the two letter barrel codes ? I have been trying to date the serial numbers and two letter barrel codes to the year of MFG. I guess he will get to decide what to do with it. So what it boils down to is that I guess my son will end up with a gun, that by the time he gets it, will be 60 or 70 years old, with a box of shells. I obviously can't bring myself to shoot it and I can't bring myself to sell it. Even though he wanted the gun, I believe the $500 price is correct. He wanted the shotgun and he thought the high value on the gun was $500. In all his years he had never come accross one this old that had never been fired. He was amazed of the condition of the gun. While I was waiting to be ok'ed so I could post, a gunsmith called that had a collection of guns made for Sears. After all this time, I registared on this sight to get some advise.
This gun was better than excelent, it had never been fired, but for a year I couldn't get anybody to narrow it down. I found that for an excelent condition shotgun like this, $300 was the highest estimate. I took the shotgun out and decided to try and find out how much it was worth. I retired recently and have had time to go through some of my stuff. I knew that the gun wasn't really valuable, but it seemed like a special gun to me, so I decided not to shoot it or sell it. He also had the box of Sears Extra Range shells he bought the same day. The man's father had died and he came across the gun in the same closet his father had put it in in 1968. The shotgun had never been fired and looked like it just came out of the factory. He told me the day his dad returned from the service in 68, he and his dad went to Sears and his dad bought the Ted Williams. In 2001 I bought a 1968 Ted Williams M200 3 inch chamber 12 gauge.
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