The 1856 Reilly 15 bore SxS rifle 10054 went for 2,750 - a lot of money for a pin-fire but that is a historic gun I think. Did anyone here bid on it?
Someone picked up a wonderful gun. Pinfire rifles definitely carry a premium, which is why I never collected them. I've seen cased pinfire rifles selling for a lot more, and a 1856-dated British pinfire is highly unusual. I've never encountered any pre-1858 pinfire game guns myself, and now that I'm retired there is no way for me to afford any that might come up.
I have a few British pinfires in my collection for which I am fairly confident date from around 1860 or slightly earlier, but none that can be proven as such. The number of pre-1860 pinfires made was probably in the low hundreds, and maybe even less than 100 prior to the
Field trial of 1858.
