I think we're getting somewhere, as far as who was actually in control of production of the guns in relation to serial numbers. Ken Georgi was a great source, I wonder what happened to his index of Daly guns?

I'll throw out a hypothesis and see if it sticks. The OP's gun's serial number was in the two thousand range and carries the crossed pistols and crown marks, this mark being associated with Heinrich, so, it's production would have been after Georg retired in the late 1870's or so. My two guns have <1000 serial numbers and lack the pistols/crown, so could indicate production controled by Georg, putting production in the 1870's. Possibly pre-1877, when Heinrich married and Georg may have retired. Make sense? It also appears that OPs gun is acutally a HAL gun, produced before the use of the HAL mark.

Last edited by Ken61; 12/27/16 10:47 AM.
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