David,
Did you get it? If you did, I'm sure the board would love to hear some more about it. If you'd be willing, I'd like to add the details to the Prussian Daly database. You can contact me at kkgeorgi@comcast.net
Bill,
I just wrote up an article that should be out in the next version of the German Gun Collector pub that deals with a lightweight Daly. As the article gets into, the only SD&G catalogs that I have seen that specifically mention a "lightweight" model end in the mid-1890s. None of my post-1898 SD&G catalogs (about 15) mention a lightweight model. But later lightweight Dalys obviously exist and are marked as such directly on the rib. 12 gauge guns in the 5.5 - 6.0 lb range with 26" tubes are common.
The question of "unmarked" lightweight Dalys has come up and has not been definitively answered. The SD&G catalogs do provide a range of weights that Daly guns could be order. But does specifying a gun be built to a lighter weight make it a "lightweight" gun? One theory is that on the "lightweight" guns the weight savings were achieved in part by using guns with smaller/thinner actions. So if a gun was built on the smaller frame, it could probably be considered a "lightweight" gun.
As of yet, I have not been able to take the measurements a "lightweight" (marked as such) Daly and compare it against a "standard" gun OF THE SAME VINTAGE.
If someone owns a lightweight Daly and some calipers, and wouldn't mind sharing the dimaensions (and the serial #), we might be able to answer the question. I'm sure we could find a gun within 100 serial numbers to compare it against.
Ken
