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35554 - SN dated 1907 per chart ..........Sanity Check.

This gun just appeared in the October 2019 Morphy Catalog. SN 35554; E.M. Reilly & Co., 295 Oxford St., London on the barrels. It is a double rifle chambered for .500/.465 Nitro Express.

https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_C__...-LOT473830.aspx

In the date chart, SN 35554 would have been numbered in late 1907. The .500/465 Nitro Express is a large bore centerfire rifle cartridge developed by Holland & Holland and introduced in 1907. This will be added to the list of "Sanity Checks.". (Note: Morphy dates the gun as "1912"..Reilly went bankrupt in 1912; I've dated it late 1907 which seems probable.)





It's interesting to compare the engraving on 35554 to that on 35493 - I looks like the same engraver using the same style:

35493 (former Terry Buffum gun)

Last edited by Argo44; 09/15/19 09:08 PM.
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