Mr. David Williamson has created the only serial number database extant for these Syracuse guns. He's a feature on the LC Smith webpage (as well as on as the Doublegun BBS) and he could likely get you fairly close to deciphering your gun's build date (from 1886 to 1888/9).
As you can also maybe surmise, not many Syracuse guns were made (when compared to all the production that flowed from Fulton) and as you might also expect, owning a true "Syracuse Elsie" (especially one as nice as yours seems to be) would be considered something of a "prized possession" by many of the good folks over on the Elsie webpage.
My 1890 Quality 2 gun is simply not viewed (by many of those dedicated souls) as being a "true" Syracuse gun, even though nearly-all of it's components were sourced from that much-vaunted location (I, of course, consider it as merely being the best of both of those worlds and a 1-year only "exotic").
My opinion of this is further supported by the author of the voluminous (& fairly recent) LC Smith table book, the late-great John Houchins (The Legend Lives) where he counts all of the "transitional gun" production at Fulton (1890 thru 1892-3) in with the earlier Syracuse guns.
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