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Beretta factory records
Who holds this maker's production records today, whether a serial table exists at all, and what it costs to have the archive read them.
Beretta has been making firearms since 1526 and has records to match, but the self-service route is not the serial — it is the Italian proof mark. Italian-proofed firearms carry the year of proof as a two-letter code, which is stamped on the frame, and for most questions that is both faster and more reliable than working back from a serial range.
Who holds the records today
Covers company records and Italian proof marks
Serial table published by the maker?
No.
No browsable serial table; the proof-mark year code is the practical route.
Archive letter
Cost: free
Waiting time: by enquiry
Observed 2026-10-14 — confirm with the archive before ordering.
Can a serial number date a Beretta?
From the serial number alone, generally no — and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in this site. There is no published table to compare the number against, so any year you find online for this maker comes from a secondary reconstruction, and those are exactly as reliable as their author.
Dating then rests on what is on the gun: the maker's marking and address, the model and its catalogued period, proof marks and their era, patent dates, and the manufacturer's own model history.
Date a firearm by its serial number
The lookup covers only makers that publish their own browsable chart — and it says which, and cites the threshold behind every result.
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