George, this 2010 line below on your 4 bore EM Reilly SN# 15625 was one of the first I read when I started to research my own Reilly:
http://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=205123&page=15The amount of grief you took over that gun was amazing and unfortunately typical internet (and also typical of a couple of posters who still are around). At least I hope I was able to help date it more precisely: I recall in the EM Reilly line I dated it as having been numbered in Fall 1868, possibly September or October.
1st Rue Scribe gun................................................................................................ 1st Reilly Martini
Feb
v1868...............Jan
v1869..............Jan
v1870...............Jan
v1871...............Jan
v1872.......1872
..15270............
.v.....15750.................16250...................16750...................17250..........17644 - (at 500/year).
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15625 ...............
Sep.Oct 1868Hope things go better for your daughter; That 4 bore is part of your legacy.