Post '64.
The Sears Model 54 like yours is shown in Gun Digest from 1966 through 1972. In 1973 a Model 100 showed up with the same description. No Sears lever action in the 1974.
Gun Digest 1964 and 1965 show Sears Model 45 which is clearly a Marlin product.
For some reason Gun Digest of that era does not list Sears guns as J.C. Higgins or Ted Williams; although they do so in earlier and later editions.
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