What kind of BB does it have? The early ones have a very small pressed in "Grease Guard" I think it was called.
Looks like an aluminum fork also. My guess is early to mid '90's. Watch out for crack near the shifter bosses on the downtube. A lot of them cracked there and Merlin fixed it by removing the tube and BB and replacing with threaded BB and new tube. Some got a new frame instead. Depended on how busy they were at the time. Get rid of the Aluminum fork and replace with a Carbon one.