RedoTx,
Congrats on your purchase. Jon has done the heavy lifting here in terms of dating your gun. The brevete marks on the breech face denoting the A&D patent use number combined with the serial number and features of your gun provide a pretty good indicator of the gun's age. Your description of the features and marks on your Daly is exactly what would be expected of a Daly diamond model 200 of this vintage (minus the blued barrels). BTW, your gun was not already recorded in the database. I know the board would love to see photos when you have them available.
At the time your gun was produced, SD&G used the umbrella term "diamond quality" to encompass two Daly models - one hammerless and one with hammers. The model 200 was SD&G's top hammerless model at this time and retailed for $250 - quite a sum of money. Later the term "diamond quality" encompassed a half Daly dozen models. All were the models ornate , but still varied quite bit in level of embellishment and price.
A rounded pistol grip would be correct for a Lindner Daly of this vintage.
The use of horn on Lindner guns is common on the forend tip and buttplate. It has been noted on at least two trigger guards on Lindner sourced guns to Continental supplier. The final place it is sometimes seen is on the base of the rounded pistol grip. To be clear, the feature is not a grip cap but a small ovalish horn projection on the very bottom of an otherwise rounded pistol grip. (I'm actually not certain of the correct term for the feature).
I'd highly recommend the 2-part Pfingsten and Mann DGJ articles. The will answer a lot of questions about Lindner and some of his outworkers (engravers.)
Congrats again on your gun. The damascus underneath the bluing should be spectacular.
Best regards,
Ken
Last edited by Ken Georgi; 11/15/11 09:33 PM.
