Thanks for your comments. They are needed because breaking a long-held stereotype/opinion is difficult. Before moving on with the history, here are a few rhetorical questions I asked of mc several pages ago which might help to start moving the needle.

-- Reilly built pin-fires. Are you all ok with that statement? p.76-77
. . . . .-- Was Reilly one of the first to build pin-fires in UK along with Lang and Blanche?
. . . . .-- Was there anybody else in all of UK who could have built those four early Reilly pin-fires? If so, who?

-- Do you accept the Reilly serial number dating chart? (To discuss the above pinfires you have to date them first)

-- Do you think he exhibited at 1851 Crystal Palace and 1855 Paris Universelle World's Fairs? If so, was he showing others' work and claiming it was his?

-- Do you believe he provided 4 center-break pinfire guns to "The Field" for the two trials in 1858 and 1859?
. . . . .-- If so do you think "The Field" would have let him submit other gunmakers' guns for the trials?
. . . . .-- Do you think the other gunmakers at the test would have allowed this?
. . . . .-- If you believe he submitted others' guns for the test, whose were they?

Gene Williams
Nouakchott

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