I also have a Daly story brewing, just have not had time to pen it. The Story goes(this is not it but a prelude), Daly & Schoverling were selling skimpies & flimsies @ Böker and they have stashed away enough cash & contacts to mount a venture of their own. Daly wanted to go Big & Bold so he ponied up at the bar in England conveying his demands for a Sporting Gun. They almost ran him out on a rail saying you are a Loon and this will not sell. But Daly had the pulse of the America Sportsman and he knew, he just knew what the American Sportsman wanted. In hindsight he was 1000% correct. But Daly bought some Scott Kits and steamed home. Daly had befriended Gunmakers Abby & Foster of Chicago and fortunately they had just devised a quaint contraption to add Belts & Braces to the Doll's Head Extension. Abby & Foster found patent protection under Nr. 114,081 on April 25th, 1871. Seven short years later Abby goes toes up & leaves Daly to his own devices searching for >>The Mechanic<< to perfekt his platform & to fulfill his orders to the American Sportsman. It is said that the Boston & Philadelphia contingent of Gunmakers made the introduction of Daly to Lindner & I assume it was circa 1870. So with Abby making his last file stroke, Daly turned to H.A. Lindner, who too appreciated the style of the American Sportsman, and the Rest is History.
I typed all that to say that Daly style guns aren't really accepted in Germany, and every Blue Moon you find one offering by a Suhl maker that exemplifies the demands of the American Sportsman. And this Imm. Meffert looks just to be that.
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Raimey
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