Raimey,

I saw it down at the Southern but didn't have it apart to check the marks. I noted the serial number for my files. It was in the 1700 range if I recall correctly which puts it circa 1909. Other than the diminutive size and unique gold inlays, the mechanicals looked great and "typical" of a regent diamond quality gun with the exception of the expected "steel eyes" indicating ejectors. It was a neat little gun, perfect for hunting dragon flies and grasshoppers I guess, but useless for anything else. The gun came with a SD&G custom alligator-skinned case.

I told my wife this close to buying it (thumb and index finger 1/8" apart). I only needed to move the decimal place about that far in the $95,000 price tag and it would have been mine :-).

Ken