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A good friend just acquired an E. M. Reilly side by side percussion shotgun. In its original oak case and label with a few accessories. It is in really nice condition.

Added some pictures below.

Thanks for any info.

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[img]http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i117/jollybill2006/MVC-012S.jpg[/img]

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Jolly:
Please assure your friend that he has a treasure. E. M. Reilly was a direct competitor of Purdey's once-upon-a-time. (same Oxford St. as I recall) I've owned a number of Reilly guns, and they are all of incomparable quality.

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I just traded an E M Reilly hammergun at the baltimore show mid March for a Kuchenreuter duelling pistol. Took it over to Kuchenreuters shop here in Bavaria and surprise it is a 1850ish high quality copy and was actually made as a target pistol as it had a set trigger duellers do not have this feature, also the stamp on the bbl at the rear was not theirs, they said Germany was not into duelling with pistols as they had the sabre tradition "ala" all the old wermacht movies with the Heidelberg slash on the cheek.
Oh well "Caveat Emptor" = let the buyer beware, and the Reilly really was a 2500 value piece.
Learnt yet another new lesson.
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Kensal and Martin,

Thank you for your response. My friend will be pleased to hear he has a Good One. It sure looked like it had an awful lot going for it.

Anyone else have anything?

Thanks much.

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Bill

Try this posting

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...true#Post157072

regarding my Reilly hammergun and which contains some history to the company.

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CBL1,

Thanks so much for adding the link to the post of your Reilly hammergun. A lot of good info.

I've added some pictures of my friends gun.

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Most of the Reilly percussion guns are by his father and thus are marked J C Reilly.

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Jolly: I recently purchased an E.M. Reilly 4 bore that I am having restored. It started life as a pinfire, so E.M. was putting his name on the gun at least back into the 1870's.

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I recently acquired an original Reilly oak case with intact original label and have no particular use for it. I collect aircanes and Reilly made some nice ones ( i have a cased one) rjack


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That is quite a treasure! I have a Henry Egg (14 gauge) in similar format (case etc.), but not quite as pristine!

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