Originally Posted by
Rick the Librarian
The one pictured was not in the condition it left Springfield Armory. Somebody "buffed it severely"! :) The best I can figure the serial number is the 1,474,000 range - considerably above the range of NRA Sporters, if that is what you're talking about.
Harrison's book, especially the first ed. has a number of errors. If I was going to use a reference, I would use William Brophy's M1903 book or the one written by Clark Campbell.
By the way, always a pleasure to meet a fellow-Spokanite; I lived there from 1951-73, and off and on afterwards for a few years.