Yes, but still plenty of great info there! Did he have anything to do with Marlin or was he just one of the early carriers of the dreaded Marlinitis desease?
A little late on this thread but just spotted it.
I know that Brophy was at the very least the Marlin Historian. When I first started collecting Marlin's, the factory letters were signed by him. And I got one of the 1st edition 1 of 1000, Marlin Firearm books through him.
As to the Genfield 25 that you have, I went through the Marlin catalogs and the Genfield 25 is
only in the 1982 catalog.The 1983 has a model 25, but it is at least in the catalog,
not called a Glenfield, but dose have the birch stock and probably used up the remaining Glenfield barrels at first. Prior to that, there was it's successor, the Genfield 20 was made from 1966-81.
I am not sure were Brophy got the 1979-82 dates, but start looking at the 87 catalogs that he had to reference from, I have 163 so far, and thing can get a little bit blurry.
As to yours, what is the first 2 letters or numbers in the ser#? And I wonder if they were a none cataloged item prior to 1982, sold to the bigger chain stores of the time.Just a guess.