Thank you sir. I noticed that gun, a classic 3 band Enfield 1853 "Rifle/Musket," and sent a comment to Wilson55 Auction. SN 11710 can be pretty precisely dated to November 1860 because of Reilly SN 11716 which was presented as a prize in Devonshire Christmas 1860. (Reilly prided himself at the time on delivering guns within 3 weeks of an order.)

(The Serial Number date chart has Reilly producing 450 SN guns in 1860. . the last being in theory 11800. That would be about 38 a month; this is obviously analysis given there are no extant records and can vary quite a bit. I'm inclined to move that last SN for 1860 back about 40 numbers after looking at these two rifles again).
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Based on the re-analysis the date chart has changed moving guns back by about 50 SN's, the termination SN for 1860 now being 11750.
-- In some aspects this is pretty significant for instance requiring moving the first Reilly C-F shotgun SN 14115 from mid 1865 to early 1866 (which does make sense given the developments in C-F shotgun primers in 1865).
-- 12532 - Aug ‘62 - Documented London exposition gun bought by Prince of Wales, which was exhibited in September 1862 should be numbered around August 1862. With the Prince of Wales feathers it was clearly ordered. It was exhibited in mid-September 1862 but likely was numbered earlier. The reworked chart now moves it to late-September, early-October.

Will work on this. . .juggling numbers around - a few 10's here minus some there - should fix it. (Wish the records would actually turn up). (Guess this is getting a bit of an obsession...whether the gun were numbered in June 1862 or October is really silly.)

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