Chapter IX, 50 deals with Reilly manufacturing the Green Brothers patent breech loading rifle which he used to try to win the interim breech loading contract with Arsenal which ultimately adopted the Snyder. This site has another one of these Reilly made Green Bros. breech loaders 15203 PUN #393 dated to circa Apr 1868.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...queryID=e1a841a6eb53b4f6fe6190265277fdfb
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This seems to indicate that Reilly may have made this rifle in batches, perhaps trying to emulate a sort of mass production run.

Spring 1864 – Trials period: - at least 8 consequtive SN’s and PUN #’s
12002 - PUN #1 - (Experimental 1st gun using a modified Enfield, SN'd in 1861)
13326 - PUN #16 - (spring 1864)
13333 - PUN #23 - (spring 1864)

1865 – Trials period:
?XXXX - PUN #109 - (spring 1865?)
13884 - PUN #159 - (late summer 1865)

1867-68 – After acceptance of the Snyder-Enfield from Sep 1867 to April 1868 Reilly SN'd 440 guns, 215 of which were Green Bros breech loaders per the PUN numbers. (Since he was sole manufacturer of the gun, it's possible that some of the PUN's were bought by other London gun makers which of course would not have a Reilly SN. An extant gun sold by Hollis & Sons, PUN #554 is such an example.
14763 - PUN #177 - (Sep 1867)
15047 - PUN #325 - (Feb 1868)
15203 - PUN #393 - (Apr 1868)

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