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#619904 09/28/22 10:47 PM
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I have a Darne V gun. Just returned from Mr. Merrington with a clean bill of health. My question- it is clearly marked as a V20- 10 poincon strikes but with V22 style engraving with dogs and fox hunting scenes each side. It is a very early gun with 3 digit serial #. Can I assume earlier guns had more extensive engraving patterns on lower grade guns?

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Salut,

Plus ils sont vieux plus ils sont beaux !
V19 fabriqué vers 1905.


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Originally Posted by prairie ghost
I have a Darne V gun. Just returned from Mr. Merrington with a clean bill of health. My question- it is clearly marked as a V20- 10 poincon strikes but with V22 style engraving with dogs and fox hunting scenes each side. It is a very early gun with 3 digit serial #. Can I assume earlier guns had more extensive engraving patterns on lower grade guns?

The standard engraving on a V20 was gamescene. Always. As our friend Fab has illustrated, there were options available. Those options usually involved money, but, not always.


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Thank you. Very nice gun, sorry I do not speak French.

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Plus ils sont vieux plus ils sont beaux !
V19 fabriqué vers 1905.

The older they are, the more beautiful
V19 made around 1905


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Serial #37x- can anybody tell me the year of manufacture?

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Here is the general dating chart for Darne serial numbers. Ted will tell you that there are discrepancies.

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1910-1925 the SN's are a letter beginning with "A" followed by three numbers. Before that they apparently are chronological.


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Thank you Argo. Mine is a 2 piece stock. Where does that fall in the lineage without a letter prefix? Post 1910 or on the cusp?

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Have to defer to the former Importer Ted. Perhaps FAB might weigh in again. I'm wondering if there were a letter prefix and it became obscured somehow.


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Prairie Ghost;

That is a beautiful gun.

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