I'll change it, thanks..got confused by your screen name....

12boreman's 14983 is now the 1st rue Scribe SN'd gun (Feb 1868); If Terry's 17854 is the last (Sep? 1886)..it pushes average yearly production of Reilly serial numbered guns to around 705 per year (as opposed to the current estimate of about 660)- almost 60 per month. In 1880 Purdey and Holland and Holland had less than a third as many SN'd gun sales.

Saint Etienne gunmakers at the turn of the century noted a drop off in sales in December to June and diversified into bicycles. Reilly though sold to "gentlemen" going abroad who needed a gun quickly, and all calibers not just shotguns. Here's an interesting example:




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