Date or production tables relate Gerber Mark II serial numbers to the years they were manufactured. Nine major and several minor tables/lists exist. However there are some discrepancies between them. Remember, that in the early years, Gerber did not keep careful records. It was nearly 14 years later in 1981 that a table was compiled by Mr. Doug Hutchens, Production Manager at Gerber. I have attempted to use information from the lists to resolve some of the discrepancies, correct a few errors and insert more detail into the table. However there are several serial range differences that I could not resolve.

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The following tables/lists were used to formulate my date table: 1981 Hutchens Table - Mr. Doug Hutchens was Gerbers Production Manager 1982 American Historical Foundation Table - Probably done by Robert Buerlein 1984 Pete Gerber Desk List - List found in Pete Gerber Sr.'s desk 1986 Unknown Origin Table - Table of unknown origin 1997 Levine List - Published in Bernard Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values IV. Also found at http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/knife_knotes_4.htm (Over half way down page) 199? Trzaska Table - Gerber_Numbers.jpg - Found at Frank Trzaska's site at http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/knife_knotes_8.htm (Over half way down page) 199? Gerberguy Table - "GERBERGuy's GERBER LEGENDARY BLADES Collector's Website" originally found at http://www.gerberknives.com/militarysurvival.htm and archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040113191559/http://www.gerberknives.com/militarysurvival.htm 199? Frost Matrix - "Gerber Mark II Production History Matrix" by Robert Frost originally found at http://home.comcast.net/~rfrost70/Mark2.htm and archived at http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:AgzkigcJmRUJ:home.comcast.net/~rfrost70/Mark2.htm 200? Gerber C.A. List - Info sheet by Donda Burnett, Gerber Consumer Affairs