I sent the article to DGJ and Dan Cote more than a year ago....never heard back. So in August and September Diggory Hadoke published a good bit of it in two parts in his new on-line magazine "Vintagegunjournal."

https://www.vintageguns.co.uk/magazine/a-new-history-of-e-m-reilly
https://www.vintageguns.co.uk/magazine/the-life-of-reilly

The dating chart has not been published yet. After the above two articles appeared, I asked Dan by email if he'd be interested in publishing the chart; he replied that "He'd let Diggory do this." Frankly I don't know why he wasn't interested in the original article. He had published John Cambell's article on Reilly in Summer 2015...and my research shows a good bit of that article to be erroneous. (This is not a dig at John, all writings on Reilly for the past 75 years have been filled with errors including Brown and Boothroyd). Perhaps Dan was just burned out on Reilly.

Diggory tells me he will ultimately publish the chart which may be the most useful part of the article, enabling an owner or prospective buyer to date his gun, often to within a few months.

At some point I will write this as a pamphlet or book....probably starting with the article then breaking the paragraphs down into chapters to show the footnotes and reasoning. I do have a number of things still to research though, so for now, I dump it all onto this line. I have changed the "New History" a bit as new conclusions come to light. I'll soon move the history and the extant gun chart forward again from p.33 and 34. And thanks for the compliment.

Gene Williams

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