With the 3000, it would be in the mid 1880s?? Just my guess, but I think the initials were a means of payment and as mechanization and technology permeated the gunmaking industry, tubes, and parts in general, were much closer to their final form and the machine/device/furnace couldn't stamp it's initials on the tubes. Or the slot of a technician monitoring the machine began instead of actual hand labour. And one starts to see the initials near the forend lug. At this point in time I'm not sure how they kept track of barrel/tube sourcing. I've looked and looked for a Schilling fella with the first initial of R, but no joy to date. In the 1880s on Lindner Daly guns I've seen at least the following initials:
R.S.
J.W.
W.M.(or possibly M.W.)
If anyone has seen the initials "H.U.F." on a pattern welded tube of a Lindner Daly, I'd be interested in the info.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Last edited by ellenbr; 05/11/09 05:13 PM.
