Hello wootang and welcome!! I would gladly post photos for you. I'll send you an e-mail via PM. Alternatively, you can go to a commercial web photo hosting site where for free they will convert your photos for posting....I use jpgbox.com. I think yours is an important gun and would like to have a record of it.

I'm having all sort of recent problems with J.C.'s numbering system from about March 1847 when they moved to 502 New Oxford Street to the time he retired September 1857.
-- There is the "7000" series which includes 7 extant JC guns from 7023 (while still at High Holborn) to 8052 (obviously one of the very last guns he made).
-- Then there are the "outliers":
.....-- 5512 from I believe 1847
.....-- 3514 from I believe 1856 time period based on the case label.
.....-- 2008 - And now your gun

.....-- Terry Buffum bought a JC Reilly, High Holborn 6 bore single barrel in May that we thought had a serial number 4073. It turned out, when he got hold of it and examined it under deep magnification to be 1x73 with the x being a number with a bottom curve - 3, 5 or 8. Assuming it were a 5 or 8 it would be right around 1839-41 and thus in sequence. (see post above).

Based on the address 2008 had to have been made by J.C. during the time period 23 March 1847 to September 1857. Perhaps with pictures we can work on a more precise date. Does it have an original case? Is there a label in the case?

I would be interested in why, if stamped "14" it would be post 1855? This is new to me and potentially very interesting. Gene Williams

Any address with "New Oxford" will refer to 502, renumbered 16 in November 1881...March 1847 to June 1898. 315 (later 277) Oxford street sometimes just "Oxford Street" opened in January 1859 and continued to be used until closed in 1904.

Last edited by Argo44; 07/14/19 09:17 PM.
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