Model 12 Winchester. Seriously old

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Hello everyone. There seems to be an abundance of model 12 s out there. Lucky me, I have four of them. One in particular I came across and purchased is a 1913 model 12 ,12 gauge . 5 digit serial number. I shot an eight point buck with it last year to celebrate it's one hundred. Anyone have an idea of the value of such a beast that is , by all accounts, a gun that does not exsist as the 12 gauge was not available for sale until 1914?
 
Struff55 is the man on these here but you are going to have to provide him some pics or more details
Also I am 99% sure the 12ga was available in the fall of 2013 to the public as was the 16ga
 
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Madis (Winchester engraver) advised that all though the 20 bore was first catalogued the 16 and 12 gauges were available almost from the beginning of model 12 production.. Madis states that since early catalogues only mentioned the 20 bore, writers assumed that the 12 and 16 gauges were introduced much later.
Darryl
 
I know it's a 1913 Struff55 . I have lots of the catalogues Winchester put out, including old ones. Maybe madtrapper143 is right and writers are assuming they came out later. Once I figure out how to post pictures in these posts I get a few up. The gun really is spectacular and I was wondering about value , for my own purposes , it's not for sale. I can't find it in bluebooks. I have an extensive collection of rare Winchesters, and many not so rare . :D . I haven't counted them lately. Thanks for the answers
 
Catalogs for 1912 & 1913 originally listed only the 20 gauge MOD. 1912
Catalogs for 1914 listed the 12 & 16 gauges.

Serial Nos. for the MOD. 1912 : After Serial No. 172,000 (1919)" MOD. 1912" was changed to the more familiar "MODEL 12" on barrel stamps.

1912 1 5308
1913 5309 3424
1914 3425 79772
1915 79773 109523
 
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