There are a lot of bits and pieces to add which may help a historian, but for now the Case Label post above needs to be expanded:

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1903-04 + Reilly trade/case label - the "four medal" label redoux


This Air Cane label was mentioned in the the above post on trade labels:



Here is a closer view of a similar label. It has 277 with a strike out and 295 printed above. Reilly left 277 in 1903, where they'd been for 44 years, because the "building was being renovated" and moved to 295. Don't know whether this label was for all their guns or specialty pieces only. It uses "Gun Manufacturers" (not "Gun & Rifle Manufactures/Makers"):



I've tried to identify the medals on the label.



-- Top left probably is 1876 Philadelphia Centinennal;.



-- Top right likely is 1878 Paris



-- The bottom left will be the 1885 International Inventions Exposition in London;



The bearded guy with the recessive chin should be identifiable - can't find it (It's not Edward VII). (edit: It looks a lot like Franz Joseph, emperor of Austria-Hungary; There was an International Exposition in Vienna in 1873..and the medals look similar. This cannot be confirmed...a close look at a clear picture will settle this. (and unlike Paris, London, Calcutta, Philadelphia there's no record of Reilly at Vienna, though strangely there are late 1800's Reilly's in Slovakia..). Edit: Confirmed: The last set of medals are for Vienna, 1873
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The presence of these medals 1873, 1876, 1878, 1885 on a 1903 label shows how Reilly had declined after the death of EM in 1890. (It also shows he may not have won a medal at the Paris Universelle in 1889). He prepared for these world fairs - he advertised, networked, promoted. The same cannot be said for his sons evidently.


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1903-1911 + - Reilly practical instruction label for 295


Here are a couple of "how-to-do-it" labels from a case dating from 295 Oxford Street days (possibly from 1911. (The Reilly's left 295 on June 8, 1912). These labels look so similar to the two (very unclear) labels pasted on the above 277 Oxford Street presentation case (right down to the slanted overprint warnings), that I think they date those two presentation cases to 1898-1903:






And by the way, that number on the label "26.210.11" is giving problems. Is that a tiny "1" in front of the "2"? Is the serial number of this gun 126,210..a 12 bore made in 1911? Hummmm....scratch head..stroke beard (if I had a beard). If so...then H.H. Reilly added a "1" in front of his Serial number chronology before selling the name to Charles Riggs in 1917 (Riggs' catalog trumpeting of the Reilly name for his wares and his use of six digit serial numbers has already been discussed). - And H.H. Reilly seems to have started a whole new number series.....beginning where? 125,000? Per the previous label he's now advertising magazine guns...but what has happened to all the guns he sold during this period 1903-1911? There's nothing out there left to find compared to the 19th Century. Were they all crunched up in the British post WWII gun pogrom? Mystery to be investigated.... (now where is Holmes when we need him?). (edit: Or was he just repairing, updating 26,210, which would have been numbered about 1884?)

Add: Here are the powders, Amberite or Schultze, that Reilly recommended for reloading per the label above:


Last edited by Argo44; 09/11/18 12:25 PM.

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