eightbore, I'm not sure of a definitive answer to your question. As to the % of completion of the guns of Daly when they came from Europe, I think that most were done completely overseas. For Schaefer, Thomas Golcher, Schmidt, and others, I think a higher percentage of their German and English sourced doubles may have come over in the white. Was this their connection to Daly ? Did Daly furnish partially finished guns to the others ? These others certainly sold Daly guns, so there was a working relationship. Years ago I had a Daly and a Schaefer hammerless gun to view side by side. They were identical, including engraving. What % of completion was done in Europe might have varied from time to time. These "others" did have gunsmiths and we see Schaefer guns marked with Nimskie [sp?] signatures. I have seen Kirkwood drillings with no metal finish, but fully stocked, appearing like they would be finished up stateside. [these are not related to Daly, Schaefer, etc. but may be a guide as to how business was done.]

It seems there was a court case between the US and Daly where Daly was accused of evading taxes on finished imported guns by shipping different pieces of completed guns at different times. Then reassembling the finished pieces into completed guns stateside.

Last edited by Daryl Hallquist; 05/31/15 08:23 AM.
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