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*8 1840's: Air-guns: There are two long 3 part posts on the Reilly line discussing a doxen Reilly air cane guns in detail:

. . . . .*8a – Air gun carried by Lewis&Clark expedition, now in NRA museum in Virginia;


. . . . .*8b – Reilly, jnr. Air cane guns; 22 April 1843, “Morning Chronicle “ :


. . . . .*8c – Reilly pamphlet on air guns, 1847. (Note this pamphlet is dated circa 1850 in virtually every article published about Reilly or air guns. Base on the "Removed from Holborn" phrase, however, it is now definitively dated to 1847...probably that summer.


. . . . .*8d – SN 7801 air cane with a label from post December 1847:


. . . . .*8e – Collage of air canes: On the Reilly line of DGS-BBS there are a long series of posts discuSsing a dozen Reilly air cane guns:


. . . . .*8f – Fiction - Le Coiuffeur de Chateaubriand


. . . . .*8g – Fiction - The Case of Peter the Painter


. . . . .*8h – Fiction - The Empty House, by A. Conan Doyle


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