And this I've added to the Didier-Drevet date database and the serial number dating matrix:

1885: 17.0; 1885 - 4911 - hammer gun, underlever Damascus barrels on a PONDEVAUX ET JUSSY gun (photos kaput thanks to greedy photo bucket) -raimey and WC - if you have photos of the barrel flats saved someplace, it would be an education to see them again.

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=406682&page=4



With the 10 examples above, we can now pretty well date every serial number barrel made by DD! 10 points on a graph over 33 years is pretty darned definitive (even if we don't know the exact start date of his manufacture - it must be before 1855 because he won a prize) - and by dating the barrels and matching them to the guns they're mated with...we'll have a firm marker on the dates the guns themselves were made? And since we have that marker on a date that brand of gun were made - it could be carried over to a whole series for the brand. Not bad - not definitive but better than nothing. I need to make a graph.

Last edited by Argo44; 07/08/17 12:43 AM.
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