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Hi gents, I have a 10 gauge sxs that looks identical to a typical Prussian Linder made for Charles Daly. However, in place of the Daly name in the ribbon engraving on the side of the action, "J.P. Lower and Sons" has been engraved. The rib also has this with Denver, Col. Gun is really top notch. Trying to find out if Linder contracted with Lower directly or if Lower did it through Daly. Will post photos shortly.

John P. Lower (1833-1912) Denver, Co. Apprenticed to J.C. Grubb in 1850 of Philadelphia. Moved to Denver in 1868. This is according to Sellers.

We know that T.L. Golcher, also of Philadelphia, was selling these guns for a time. So it is possible Lower had the contacts.

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Pete

Lindner did source unfinished guns to a few gunmakers in America. The vast majority of his output was sent in finished form to Shoverling, Daly and Gales. Does your gun have crossed pistols under either a crown or "HAL" just ahead of the barrel flats? Does it have a very wide forerm lug? Is it hammerless? What is the serial number? Looking forward to seeing the pictures. Ken Georgi will probably provide you with more iniformation about Lindner's providing semi-finished guns to American gunmakers. Very few are around and he has several nice ones.
Cheers,
Jon

Juan,

Looking forward to the pics - sounds like an interesting gun. As Jon mentions, Lindner sourced guns, either fully finished or in the white, to a variety of retailers and makers. I have not seen a Lindner sourced JP Lower gun in peson so I am eager to hear more about this gun.

Regards,
Ken

I googled "lindner lower denver shotgun" and came up with bunches of forum posts, including John Mann, Ken Georgi, Doug Mann, and other luminaries of Lindner research. Bill Wise is probably in there somewhere also. Bill Murphy

Image of John Prey Lower(1833-1917) in some Denver archives:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/76205/rec/4

His store:

http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p128501coll6/id/136/rec/3

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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