Posted by Norm on February 5, 2016, 5:14 pm, in reply to "Help dating gun"
Harry:
From the dates of manufacture elsewhere on this site: "Unfortunately, several blocks of serial numbers (46,000 – 49,999, 70,000 – 78,999, and 90,000 – 99,999) have been lost."
IIRC, the 99,000 were around 1898-9. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will confirm/correct that