Originally Posted By: ellenbr


I would guess the Joseph Jakob sporting weapon in question to be from the early to mid 1880s.

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Raimey
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I'm going to revise this guess and say 1884-1885 due to the 1883/1884 advancements on the Anson & Deeley's Body Action such as the overhanging secondary scear and the safety. To parallel Axle's somewhat raw description of the Suhl firearms merchant/gun maker H.A. Lindner, I can find little variance in the Charles Daly Body Action/A&D sporting weapon and the advancements by Anson & Deeley on the 1876 patent in 1883/1884,i.e. H.A. Lindner contributed little to the refinement of the Charles Daly import longarm, which is basically the culmination of the Anson & Deeley advancement patents. About the only difference is the secondary scear spring was mounted on the top tang on the A&D Body Action and was much lower on the Charles Daly import scattergun and I don't think that to be enough to be outside of the filed patent protection. Also the scear proper and secondary scear to trigger interface seems to be inverted on the offerings by H.A. Lindner. The safety is the same and pretty much all points to a bonafide(?) A&D Body Action along with the Deely & Edge forend fastener.

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Raimey
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