Thanks Stephen and you are the expert; My text was meant to try to introduce the subject in the context of the Reilly history, not write something definitive. Sorry for the deviation into the War Between the States - sidetracks happen sometime. You have presented some very interesting research and VGJ will be read with great interest. What are your thoughts on the Liège connection to Hodges and Lang if any. Thanks again for this excellent line and for your outstanding scholarship.

(edit: And in particular your digging into the origin of the Hodges-Lang original UK pin-fire. There may be a reason Blanch bought a Beringer in Paris in Dec 1855!).

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