Thanks Tom. The Comblain was a Belgian gun. Wondering why Belgian proofs for a muzzle loader barrel would be four on a breech loader. Perhaps the barrel was modified just as the Enfield barrels were modified to accept the Snider action.

The earliest Reilly-Comblain I have found is Patent Use #14 and it had Belgian barrel proofs (it must also have had London Proofs as well but the photos are minimal). This gun is PUN 37. I'm going to assume that Reilly supplied 14 or 15 guns straight out of Belgium for the trials Feb 1868 to July 1868. Afterwards he made a few for the sporting rifle Market. . .then switched production to Birmingham for bumping the SN series up to 5,000. The chapter on the Reilly-Comblain will be modified.


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