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There are numbers stamped on the inside face of the ejectors.
Almost impossible to read but I'm fairly certain they are not the serial number.
Any ideas?

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Loosen the screw and take an actual look

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Not the serial number.
Any ideas what the number might refer to?

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I just had a close look at my M21 12 ga Tournament grade made in 1934. It has a two digit number behind each extractor that does not relate to the serial number. Nor does it correspond to the part number.
My guess is that it is a number used during assembly to avoid mixing parts of one gun with another one.

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Thus far I've heard two plausible explanations.
1) Left and right extractors were produced as a set, and numbered so, then thrown in a bin well before they were fitted to a barrel yet now (then) existed as a set.
2) Left and right extractors were fitted to a barrel and assigned the same production number as say the barrel before the barrel was fitted and then serialized to a specific receiver.

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