doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Post-WWI Prussian Daly maker

Chief,

Very interesting. The "F.A." initials on the Daly in question are in the same location as the gun you describe.

John,

In my haste at the Vintagers event, I did not copy down the serial number. From memory, it is in the 25,xxx - 26,xxx range. Unfortunately the owner is not on the internet or email so I will have to get details via snail mail.

The engraving was typical of what you'd expect to see on a 135 or 185 Daly - about 25% scroll coverage of sorts.

MP,

Stylistically, the 1929 Daly looked like an earlier Lindner-made gun. If not for the serial number, date marks, etc., it could be taken for a Lindner gun made 15 years earlier. The scallop at the rear of the action had the gentle asymmetrical lines of the earlier guns.

I came up with a similar list of German gunmakers who initials are F.A. using the the "Alte Scheibenwaffen Vol II" reference, but none of those were familiar. I keep hoping to find an easy answer like that Heym had a brother with those initials but so far nothing else. The fact that Chief has found the same initials on a Simson gun makes the mark sound more like an inspectors mark (??) than a makers mark. If my memory of the serial number is correct, I'd say Heym is still the most likely maker.

Ken