John Phillip Sousa AAHE Pigeon Gun

[FRANK HALSEY]

I own a few Daly-Lindner sbt's Do you know the number? Thanks, Frank

[Bill Murphy]

#2415, standard Diamond, not sextuple.

[Bill Murphy]

Frank, I made a mistake, it is a Sextuple. Almost everyone has seen the widely printed picture of Sousa holding his Daly. It is often misidentified as his Grade 7 Ithaca Flues. Recently, I have found two more pictures of Sousa holding the Daly and one of him holding the AAH Parker. Those three pictures were accessed from the Library of Congress. I haven't received the prints yet, so I don't know what the quality is.

[Drew Hause]

[Bill Murphy]

Yup, before I discovered these recent two pictures, the picture Drew posted was the only picture of Sousa with the famous Daly. At one time, I think Drew sent me a clearer version of this picture than I had at the time. Thanks, Drew.

[Bill Murphy]

If anyone is interested in seeing pictures of the Sousa Daly, many pictures are in Double Gun Journal, Summer 2013 in an article posted by my friend and neighbor Tom Breeden and myself. Another Sousa shotgun is pictured in an article in a fairly recent Remington Society Journal, also authored by Tom Breeden and me.