I've added several newly found Reilly's to the running list on p.33 above. This PINFIRE SN 11469 is now the earliest extant Reilly center-break gun found so far. I've dated it to about April 1860 - Jones underlever. Note....it did not sell in the September 2019 Holt's auction:

=========================================================
11469

https://auctions.holtsauctioneers.com/as...3&saletype=
A 12-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN SIGNED 'E.M. REILLY', serial no. 11469, circa 1870 (?), with signed 29 3/4in. barrels, engraved signed bar-action locks, walnut butt-stock and 'bar-in-wood splinter fore-end, finish worn
Estimate 500-700



It looks very similar to the gun pictured in the 1860 book Rifles and the Volunteer Rifle Corps.. Also, the several pages on Reilly's entry in the 1859 trials is historically interesting; The militia and home guard had to supply their own weapons and were far more experimental and forward looking than Ordinance. (Note the name "Reilly & Co." which was used in early-mid 1859; In October 1859 "E.M Reilly & Co." first appeared in advertisements; The gun in the book appears to use a Jones under-lever which was patented in September 1859).
https://books.google.com/books?id=gVIBAA...lly&f=false



Last edited by Argo44; 10/26/19 09:30 AM.

Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch