I will have the gun in a couple of weeks. However, I followed the link you gave, then jumped through two more and arrived at one of Ken's articles on the GGCA site concerning the Daly SBT's. The catalog he showed from around 1914 had an illustration of the 165 and 265 models and based on the auction pictures this is without doubt a Model 165. It has the correct Linder HAL and crossed pistol logos for this period. In the writeup he stated that ties were cut off with Linder after 2016 due to WWI and that Linder did not provide SBT's after the war. He also stated that all the known Linder SBT's were serial numbered between 2000 and the low 2600's. Since this gun has a 23xx serial number I would suspect it was made about halfway through the period 1914.
Interestingly enough I purchased a Francotte in the same auction and it was made in almost the same year.
Last edited by AGS; 03/02/26 03:46 PM.
