This deactivated Reilly SN 10448 now 20320 was discussed four posts ago. It is now for sale on Holt's sealed bid auction:
https://www.holtsauctioneers.com/as...++7428+&refno=++239693&saletype=
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I asked Holt's as time permits and for academic purposes only to try to determine where both these serial numbers are found. Holt's send the response photos below. Clearly this was an early pin-fire, 10448 being found on the water table/action flats and on the barrels. 20320 is found on the tang behind the trigger guard, no doubt added when it was converted to Center-fire. 20320 would date to 1876. 10448 would date to late 1857 only 10 numbers earlier than mine. The name/address on the rib was also changed when it was converted.
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Examining the barrels, believe there are faint traces of holes covered and perhaps a remnant of a starburst.
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There is a Patent Use Number on the action flats which is interesting. Possibly W&CS&S (probably W&CScott & Son)?, use number 632. Anyone know what patent this might be? Might have been stamped when the gun was rebuilt. (Edit: See this line:
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=668032#Post668032
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added this bullet to Chapter III, 27:

. . .-- SN 10448 -November 1857: 12 bore SxS shotgun, originally a pin-fire hammer gun. Remade into a center fire gun c.1876 and number 20320 with the address changed on the rib.*27c(1)

Last edited by Argo44; 12/03/25 10:51 PM.
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