I know people are fed up with this line - but these posts are interesting enough to make note of for the Reilly historian:

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1857 - Retirement of JC Reilly

According to this advertisement in the 02 Sep 1857 edition of "London Daily News," J.C. Reilly retired at the end to 1857 (rather than late 1858) and turned everything over to his son Edward. This will effect dating of the J.C. "7000" series serial numbered guns. The above chart will be changed, as will the above narrative "New Short History." It also means that E.M. did not change the name of the company until a year after his father's retirement.



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1862 - 1864 - Reilly and the Green Bros Breech Loader -2

A Reilly-made Green-Brothers patent breech loader is posted above in the Military gun series. It is SN 13333 and it gave problems in dating Reilly Serial Numbers in the 1860's. It was Reilly made gun nr. 23. Green bros took out their patent in Spring 1862. However, per the below ads, Reilly did not put his first Green brothers guns on the market until April 1864 and the trials really got underway in June-July. In the SN Chart above, 13333 is pretty much in the middle of 1864, an indication of the essential accuracy of those estimates:



..........22 Apr 1864 "London Daily News"


..........04 Apr 1864 "London Daily News" - part of a review of the gun


..........29/Jul1864 "Morning Post" reporting on testing of the Green Bros against others including the Snider:



Last edited by Argo44; 10/16/18 02:37 PM.
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