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I am looking in a Catalog from W. Darlow, Bedford, England, dated 1928. They offer guns from England, Belgium, and the Continent. I noticed one illustration of their Continental guns had the same engraving pattern as the underside of my 1924 Daly Diamond Quality. I wonder what this tells us of the engravers of the Daly and Continental guns, and the makers of same. The black and white pictures are from the 1928 Darlow catalog.

I was hoping that we could elicit some information on post WWl German engraving from one of the Daly experts or the guys who know German guns, well. I would think the two guns pictured had a common ancestor. Does anyone know the maker or model of the overunder ?

Daryl, I know for sure this maker. this O/U is made by Gebrüder Rempt. The same gun is pictured on the first page of the book "SUHLER WAFFENKUNST" I gona scan the picture ans send to you so you can compare or post it on this topic.
Marc.

Marc, you solved it. Here is Marc's scan. I hope it is large enough to show the detail of the overunder Rempt. I wonder if this helps solve who made some of the Daly guns after WWl. Same engraving for sure in all three subjects. Marc, do you know the date of your catalog scan ?

Indeed the O/U is a REMO/Brother's Rempt example, who had at least one such lock-up patent(I think that is what is states on the flyer & I don't recall the variation with the Purdey nose) like Richard Schüler and I guess Brother's Rempt to have applied for it in the mid 1920s while Richard Schüler's patent was #1105574(German) being submitted in January 1930. In reading correspondence, etc., I tend to think that Richard Schüler was at the core of S,D&G's sourcing of Suhl and REMO might have played a part. I don't purport to be a Daly expert, and considering all engraving seems to run together the longer one stares at it, but I think both pieces are the work of Fritz Heimbeck. His scroll work tends to resemble oyster pearls hanging from the scroll. And I'm sure if Richard Schüler was the source for S,D&G's Suhl examples he attempted to retain all the former talent that had made the name Daly synonymous with quality. Can anyone make a stab at how many sidelocks and drillings that Lindner made?

I'm curious what the "K.Sl.S" is under the REMO model right above the "Reference 828"?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Raimey,

FWIW, I have not (yet) record a Lindner-made drilling. All the recorded Daly drillings have been Sauer-made and marked. I am away from the database, but there are only 1 or 2 Lindner-marked sidelocks.

Daryl,

Your Daly looks familiar. Was is offered at Amoskeag a few years back?

Ken

Thanks Ken for the info and from memory I think there were about as many Lindner drillings as sidelocks. Could you pleasure us with a pic of a true "Best" sidelock on par with either W. Foerster, Matska, etc. ????

I thought I had read it from somewhere like here, http://books.google.com/books?id=6hi_I2T...uhl&f=false , but it doesn't look to be the case.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

This one too, http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=159248415 , may have felt the tap, tap, tap of Fritz Heimbeck.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

I agree that these were engraved by Fritz Heimbeck.
As to the number of drillings and side locks--
I know of no drillings, but know for certain of one side lock. Have heard that there may be another but do not know that for certain.
Anything is possible and since Lindner had an association in Berlin for a time, some guns could have been sold there and we would never hear of them. We do know of the one gun that is inscribed in German and was surely made for the German market.
It is only in recent years that anyone cared about him and his guns. They were sort of buried treasures until a few of us started to shoot off our mouths !!LOL
Best,
John

Some interesting marks on what looks to be a pre-1912 double by Remo that Mr. Hallquist brought to my attention:





I think the "WK" stamp just might be the predecessor to the heart shaped "W" which envelopes the "K" of Wilhelm Kelber.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse