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Just a sidebar, but post WWI after the loss of his son in harsh fighting with the Brits, the serialization is that of that specific maker that was tasked with manufacture and has nothing to do with Lindner's serialization. H.A. Lindner might have been a middle-man, but S,D&G, the Daly Gun trademark, are being peddled, consolidated/merged & dissolved on a whim. Most difficult to track in a tumultuous period without the ledgers.
I still contend that your example was conceived in the mid 1880s and completed some time later so for argument's sake, let's concentrate efforts in the 1880s. I guess it is possible that your example might be one of the promotion breechloaders that were made to be used as a demo in target shooting on high seas enroute to NY, where upon the examples were disassembled, cleaned, etc. and peddled as new Daly Breechloaders? Still a lot of ground to cover. Also being quite removed from the data sampling of the W.R. Schaefer examples, I can't say which ones, if any had the APUN stamp. But W.R. Schaefer was an outlet for H&R and R.E. Couchman would have drug him into court if the APUN was not paid. When the APUN was paid for, the frame was sent to Westley Richards, or a satellite stamping station & the APUN was applied.
An 1881 advert of S,D&G displays an image of a hammergun and has W.R. Schaefer of 61 Elm Street, Boston and Thos. L. Golcher of 116 Girard Avenue, Philadephia listed.
Then an 1884 advert of Wm. R. Schaefer & Son of 61 Elm Street, Boston, Mass. notes Schaefer being an agent of Harrington & Richardson Hammerless and the Daly Hammer and Hammerless Breechloading Shot Guns - Choke Boring Guns & Bending Gun Stocks are specialities.
A S,D&G 1889 advert has an image of the early Charles Daly Hammerless with Cartridge Ejectors & has the odd somewhat sqaure or squatted frame sides.
I'm not sure when The Daly Gun was fitted with ejectors but the above 1889 advert makes Cartridge Ejectors an option and that too may narrow the completion date of your Daly Gun.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
rse
I still contend that your example was conceived in the mid 1880s and completed some time later so for argument's sake, let's concentrate efforts in the 1880s. I guess it is possible that your example might be one of the promotion breechloaders that were made to be used as a demo in target shooting on high seas enroute to NY, where upon the examples were disassembled, cleaned, etc. and peddled as new Daly Breechloaders? Still a lot of ground to cover. Also being quite removed from the data sampling of the W.R. Schaefer examples, I can't say which ones, if any had the APUN stamp. But W.R. Schaefer was an outlet for H&R and R.E. Couchman would have drug him into court if the APUN was not paid. When the APUN was paid for, the frame was sent to Westley Richards, or a satellite stamping station & the APUN was applied.
An 1881 advert of S,D&G displays an image of a hammergun and has W.R. Schaefer of 61 Elm Street, Boston and Thos. L. Golcher of 116 Girard Avenue, Philadephia listed.
Then an 1884 advert of Wm. R. Schaefer & Son of 61 Elm Street, Boston, Mass. notes Schaefer being an agent of Harrington & Richardson Hammerless and the Daly Hammer and Hammerless Breechloading Shot Guns - Choke Boring Guns & Bending Gun Stocks are specialities.
A S,D&G 1889 advert has an image of the early Charles Daly Hammerless with Cartridge Ejectors & has the odd somewhat sqaure or squatted frame sides.
I'm not sure when The Daly Gun was fitted with ejectors but the above 1889 advert makes Cartridge Ejectors an option and that too may narrow the completion date of your Daly Gun.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
rse
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