This single barrel top lever rook rifle converted to .410 shotgun is interesting. The SN on the barrel is 31111 - 1889 E.M Reilly at 277 Oxford Street. There is a number on the tang. Holt's cannot decipher it but it certainly looks like 7330 or possibly 7530. If this is correct, this would be an 1849 J.C. Reilly rifle in the "7000" series.
-- if so it was possibly converted to a center break shotgun in 1889 then later rebored? Is this possible? We've seen several such Reilly percussion shotguns converted to center break. I'll post pictures of 31111/7330 and a J.C. Reilly 7000 series rifle 7801 with the 502 New Oxford St. address below for comparison purposes:
-- Reilly sometimes left off a digit in from of the SN. The engraving is surely post 1860's; so with the post 1881 address, it could have originally been 27330 - 1885; or it could be 17530 (17330 is extant) - 1871 with the barrel changed out later to 31111 and still later bored out to .410; It'd be interesting to see the proofs.)

https://www.holtsauctioneers.com/as...++6577C&refno=++225351&saletype=
E.M. REILLY & CO. .410 (SMOOTHBORED) CONVERTED TOPLEVER HAMMER ROOK & RABBIT RIFLE, serial no. 31111, circa 1880, serial number on barrel only, original number worn to obscurity, 25 3/4in. turned octagonal to round nitro reproved barrel, the breech-end engraved 'E.M. REILLY & CO. 277. OXFORD ST. LONDON.', 2 1/2in. chamber, bored approx. true cyl., carved fence, back-action lock with rebounding hammer, border and acanthus scroll engraving, retaining very slight traces of colour-hardening and finish, 14 1/2in. pistolgrip stock with pistolgrip cap, Hackett-type snap-on splinter fore-end with horn finial, weight 4lb. 4oz., in a handmade wooden case

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