Re the ejectors, here is the original ad on Christies on 01 December 1998: Jefferies Patent ejector:

https://www.christies.com/LotFinder/print_sale.aspx?saleid=8291
LOT 143
A RARE 12-BORE HAMMER EJECTOR GUN BY E.M. REILLY, NO. 30394
ESTIMATE. £400 - £800. ($662 - $1,323)
PRICE REALIZED. £460 ($761)
30394 - E.M. Reilly & Co., Oxford Street, London. 12 bore. SxS shotgun, hammer gun, ejector. Jeffries patent ejector 7895-85 #1 of pair.

Reilly paid royalties on a lot of different patents during this time and his use of the Jefferies ejectors may have been alluded to in an 1888 review of his exhibit at the 1885 London International Inventions Exposition.

Subsequently Stimpson wrote an article in "Double Gun Journal" about the #2 gun of the pair, presumably 30395, which per the article he found in a gun shop; it was sleeved with 28" barrels. The article goes on to mention that when 30394 was found on-line (presumably bought from Christies above in 1998), it had original but pitted 30" Damascus barrels. I only have two pages of the article. But assume that when Stimson got his hands on it, he had in "lined." If that were after 2005, was it reproofed yet again? If anyone has the final parts of the story, it might be interesting.

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