It's got the mm designation for chambers "65" not cm "6.5" meaning it is at least post June 1912.

I'm going to assume that the number on the Barrels, "U375" is in fact the Serial Number of the gun:

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1910-1925 with a Letter followed by 999 guns means that Darne made about about 15,000 guns in those 15 years..minus four years of war.....= 11 years = about 1360 guns a year.
. . . . .-- V-Z (5 x 1360) = 6800 guns + 640 (U999-375) = 7440 guns
. . . . .-- 7440 = about 5.5 years of production at 1360 guns a year
. . . . .-- Now count backwards 5.5 years from 1925.

So it seems the gun were made circa mid 1919.... QED.

(Surely there was not a steady number of guns produced each year so the above is approximate. 1914 for instance would have had only 8 months...etc. But this is close enough. Say post war, probably 1919).

Last edited by Argo44; 09/30/22 07:58 PM.
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