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Using Imgur following is a recreation and updated version of the Reilly label list for historians:

1. Summer 1828- Aug 1835;
Name: J.C. Reilly?
Description: Gun Maker”?
Address: Holborn Bars aka 12 Middle Row, Holborn.
Name: presumably J.C. Reilly per advertisements. Label unknown – no extant examples

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2. Aug 1835- Mar 1847 ;
Name: Joseph Charles Reilly.
Description: Gun Maker
Address: 316 High Holborn.



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3. Mar 1847 – Nov 1847;
Name: Joseph Charles Reilly;
Description: Gun Maker
Address: 502 New Oxford Street, London.
Feature: See “REMOVED FROM HOLBORN” used Apr 1847-Nov 1847 in advertisements



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4. Circa Dec 1847 – Circa 1856 (possibly August);
Name: Reilly,
Description: Gun Maker
Address: 502, New Oxford Street, London
Features: Sketch of 502 New Oxford Street; Scolloped corners; Ships to the Universe



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5. Circa 1856 (possibly August) – March 1859;
Name: Reilly,
Description: Gun Maker
Address: 502, New Oxford Street, London
Features: “Fusils a Bascule”; “Improved Breech Loaders”; Medals from 1851 and 1855 World fair expositions in London and Paris; Sketch of 502 New Oxford Street; scolloped corners; Ships to the Globe



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6. Mar 1859 – Apr 1861
Name: E.M. Reilly & Co.;
Description: Gun Makers
Address: No. 502 New Oxford Street, London
Features: Sketch of 502 New Oxford Street; Medals won in 1851 and 1855; Improved Breech Loaders; scolloped corners.



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7. Aug 1858 – Mar 1859
Name: Reilly’s
Description:
Address: No. 315, Oxford Street, London
. . . . . . .Principle establishment, 502, New Oxford Street
Features: “Armoury House”; Fusils a Bascule; Shooting gallery target motif; retangular shape. NOTE: This is allegedly from a “reproduction label.” However, no original examples are extant, nor are there extant reproduction labels of this sort. It had to have come from an original.



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8. Mar 1859 – Apr 1861;
Name: E.M Reilly & Co.
Description:
Address: No. 315, Oxford Street, London
. . . . . . .Principal establishment at 502 New Oxford St.
Features: “Gun Manufactury”; “Improved double and single breech loaders; 1851 & 1855 Exhibition medals; scolloped corners



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9. Apr 1861 – Feb 1868 and on to circa Nov 1881
Name: E.M Reilly & Co.;
Description: Gun Manufacturers
Address: 502, New Oxford Street, London
Features: See advertising scroll work at the bottom of the label which did not change until circa 1885; scolloped corners; subtle border outlining.



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10. Feb 1868 – Nov 1872 and on to Nov 1881
Name: E.M Reilly & Co.,
Description: Gun Manufacturers
Address: 502, New Oxford Street, London; branch establishments:
. . . . . . . . .315 Oxford Street; and
. . . . . . . . .2, rue Scribe, Paris.
Features: Medals won at the 1867 Paris Universelle exhibition (Napoleon III profile). Subsequent labels sometimes did not feature branch addresses.



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11. Feb 1868 – 1870
Name: E.M Reilly & Co.,
Description: Breech Loading Gun & Rifle Manufacturers
Address: 315, Oxford Street, London also
. . . . . . . . .2, rue Scribe, Paris
Features: By Special appointment to the emperor Napoleon III. Used in pistols cases only



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