Gentlemen: I thought the 1890 McKinley Tariff Act, which came into force in 1891-2, required the single name of the originating country / autonomous region to be stamped on imported products from abroad (e.g. "Germany," "Nippon," etc.). While we do see "Made in Prussia" stamped on the action body sides of some Charles Daly guns, or alternatively the name of the autonomous region, such as "Thuringia" after "Charles Daly" earlier located there too, significantly we do not find the "Made in ..." stamp applied to the water-table until after mid-1921, when U.S. customs bureau regulations changed and the "Made in [such and such country]" stamp was thereafter required. I do not believe the former or latter stamp is applied specifically to the water-table before the aforesaid dates of requirement.
Moreover, if we believe the subject gun is of 'Prussian Era' manufacture / or then finished, the question begged is: Which era is that of which we speak? Since the question has also arisen concerning the existence or longevity of a political entity or state called Prussia, we will briefly address it. In November 1918, the petty monarchies were abolished and the nobility lost its political power during the German Revolution of 1918-19. The Kingdom of Prussia was consequently abolished to form a republic, the Free State of Prussia, a state of Germany from 1918 until 1933. From 1933, Prussia lost its independence as a result of an internal coup, when the Nazi regime successfully established its "Gleichschaltung" laws in pursuit of a unified state. With the defeat of the Nazi regime ending the Second World War, the division of Germany into allied-occupation zones and the separation of its territories east of the Oder–Neisse line, which were incorporated into Poland and the Soviet Union, the State of Prussia ceased to exist in 1945 (It was formally liquidated by the Allied Control Council in February, 1947). So we are addressing many possible decades; and accordingly, it is likelier the gun was manufactured sometime prior to the end of Prussia's existence as a state, though necessarily after 1921.
What all this treating of history means is that the subject gun is of post-1921 manufacture, and thus is not a Lindner-finished gun or a product of the Golden Age, when the most sought-after Prussian-made Charles Daly / H. A. Lindner-finished guns were completed.
Regards,
Edwardian
