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1889 - Reilly exhibits at Tour Eiffel World's Fair

Per the 18 September 1889 edition of "Morning Post," Reilly did exhibit at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, the "Tour Eiffel" World's Fair and may have won a silver medal (the article is unclear but implies all English gun makers won at least silver medals). The historical narrative will be changed above.

If he won a medal he never featured it on his case labels, - it was not on the post 1898 label that feature medals from the 1873 Vienna, 1876 Philadelphia, 1878 Paris or 1885 London fairs, or in the few ads which can be found after 1889. (On the other hand, of all the World's Fair medals displayed on all sorts of labels, stationary, ads etc., the one you DON'T see ever is the 1889 fair medals - can't say why that is.

In fact newspaper ads just dried up after 1886. From 1887-1892 Reilly's guns are mention in the UK Press virtually every week winning shooting contests and being given away as prizes. However, without ads or articles to put the wins into context, it's hard to know what was going on with the firm. (Edit: There are ads right up to May 1912 - just can't access them for the moment).. If anyone stumbles onto advertisements for Reilly after 1890, please let me know the link. Also there are precious few original Case Labels from that time period of you get hold of one.

.....18 September 1889 "Morning Post." From the article one infers that all British gun makers won medals.


.....PAGE 152 of the official 1889 Paris Exhibition Catalog:
https://archive.org/details/internationalex02commgoog


Per this advertisement from the 1889 Exposition catalog, Grubb of Philadelphia was still his USA Agent - had been since 1868:

Last edited by Argo44; 10/15/18 08:30 PM.
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