NPM s/n 4,245,xxx

**RCS** · 08-15-2010 11:29 AM

What would be the correct hammer for this serial number (NH ?) barrel is undated IBM with P proofAttachment 15007

stock is hi wood, only photo that I have is the cartouche

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**PBI** · 08-15-2010 11:45 AM

you want a straight hammer marked HN but I think they used other makers hammers.

**kar66** · 08-15-2010 11:57 AM

Thats a late carbine and you need a late, also more common-cheeper late hammer. Not the harder to find early dog-leg hammer.

**Rustship** · 08-15-2010 12:38 PM

I'm looking for the same thing for my 4.42. HI wil work, But if your like me, I'm waiting on an HN. And they are hard to find.

**Wulf** · 08-15-2010 03:13 PM

Rusty, isn't HI an Inland hammer?

**Rustship** · 08-15-2010 05:04 PM

Wulf,

Generally speaking, yes, but used from approximately fall of 1943 through end of production on National Postal Meter. HN, HI, or NHTE (intertwined logo) War Baby page 451.

**Wulf** · 08-15-2010 07:47 PM

Thanks. I have never looked at that book.

**DaveHH** · 08-18-2010 10:43 PM

I have a NPM trigger housing and a KR hammer which might be original since Rock-ola sent them 5,000 hammers before they finished production in April 1944. Love my NPM, nice finish.

**Bruce McAskill** · 08-21-2010 10:47 PM

War Baby lists the hammer as N1 not NI. In the parts intergrated to NPM from Inland only 50 hammers on 11-09-42 were sent to NPM and 1 hammer on 4-13-43. No other hammers are listed as being sent to NPM from Inland. NI marked hammers could have been sent to another carbine maker and then sent on to NPM but that would be rare indeed for a large amount of hammers to transfer like that.

**Rustship** · 08-21-2010 11:26 PM

Bruce, I see that about H1 instead of HI, easy to overlook. But I'll say this there are a lot of people passing off HI's in Gunbroker as belonging to a late production NPM. Only definitive marking on a straight hammer is HN, H1, or NHTE

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