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I'm pretty sure that if the tang is not stamped with "1936" then it was made sometime after 1946. I used to own an extremely rare 1936 ADL Deluxe (only 50 were made). My understanding is that the model '36 started out in 1936 and was sold as a "1936". 2 years later, the catalog was changed to a model number "36" but the tang was still stamped "1936" until after the war when the tang stamping stopped.
Unfortunately there are no serial number records for many of the model years (I seem to recall that maybe it was a fire that destroyed them but I could easily be wrong).
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