SD&G would provide their customer just about any combination of features they desired. Within the Daly database are guns with short barrels (26") and reportedly original tight chokes. Unfortuantely choking is not marked on Prussian Dalys so there is no way to confirm the original choking unless you have the orginal hang tag.
Usually the question is phrased the otherway :-) - i.e., a gun has little or no choke and the owner wonders if it is original. If the choke is there to begin with, I would suspect they are oriignal barring any other information.
BTW, except for the very last of the Prussian Dalys (post-SD&G era), there is really no such animal as a "superior grade" Prussian Daly. I know I'm nit-picking here on the terminology, but it causes problems when discussing other models. SD&G always sold their guns by model number. Some of the models were grouped under umbrella terms such as "diamond quality", and later "regent diamond quality", but the "empire" and "superior" terms are later names and should only be applied to post-1930 guns. (Your gun might be in this era, in which case the name would be correct, but the majority of Prussian Dalys were made previously to the introduction of this term which is why I bring it up.)
Ken
