SN charts, the one attached to the last New Reilly History and the one with the extant guns, have been updated to reflect the new first extant SN with 277 or 16 on the rib 23536. It required dialing back a few estimates in the 1870's and bumping up Reilly production 1882-85 to an astonishing 1050 serial numbered guns a year, a true factory production. 23536 as the chart now stands would have been serial numbered in mid-November 1881.

Of course these are educated estimates. The whole exercise was really designed to get a Reilly owner to within about 6 months of the date his gun might have been numbered. You can be more confident in the dates from about 1858-1903 than for the other periods because of the number of existing guns.

I'll be adding something about 29 rue du faubourg shortly but perhaps the huge output in the early 1880's might explain a satellite office in Paris, an off-shoot (not replacing) 2 rue Scribe.

Last edited by Argo44; 11/02/18 11:25 AM.
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