I thought I was wrong once,
but I was mistaken.
Thanks for the Marlin lookup page. My old 336 has been in one family member or another's gun cabinet since I can remember. It's the first gun I ever toted in the deer woods, and now I know it's from 1969. My grandpa bought it new (he couldn't remember if he got it new, but he remembered that he bought it before my mom graduated college in 1970) and it's three years older than me.
That bit of info made my evening.