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Great article, Gene, looking forward to Part Two.

Gene,

Congrats!!

Ken

Thanks. For a sneak preview of Part II...and for elements edited out for space reasons...you can always read the original on p. 20 above. It includes a chart for dating Reilly SN's. The extant Reilly guns add more detail to this chart on p.22 above. (both moved to p.33 below)

I got into this to date my Reilly SN 34723 which turned out to be, so far, the last extant Reilly with 16 New Oxford Street on the rib. The history came as a bi-product.

34723

Ah, press on & remain ever stalwart.


Cheers,

Raimey
rse

Raimey, By the late 1890's....purportedly....100% of London proofed Damascus barrels were made in Li�ge. So does that make the barrels of SN 34723 (1898) French speakers? How can I tell? Je parle en Francais toujour avec les trucs juste devant un tir. "Allez mes infants, faisez tes travail!." It doesn't seem to work!!

Yes, dig young'uns, dig. I would say that that London gave up the ghost earlier & sourced the Birmingham mechanics, who had well established rough tube sourcing lines to Li�ge. 1st, just rough tubes finished by Birmingham mechanics then probably something closer to finished tubes. One might look @ the British import laws to see if the U.S. of A. patterned their >>rough tube<< verbiage(reduced rates for >>rough bore tubes<<) after the Brits. More than likely the realization occurred in the early 1880s?

Cheers,

Raimey
rse

The last one in existence with the address, or the last one produced that has that address on the rib, that has been found?

SRH

It's the last Reilly serial number in existence found so far with 16 New Oxford Street. So it's a "marker" gun in a way....marking 1898. If a later SN appears at some point with that address...the chains will have to move. This from p.22 (you'll note that this chart would have 34723 numbered about October 1898. However, most Reilly moves have been in summer):
-- August 1835 - moved from Holborn Bars to High Holborn
-- March 1847 - High Holborn to New Oxford Street.
-- January 1859 - opened 315 Oxford Street.
-- February 1868 - open 2 rue Scribe:
-- August 1885 - closed 2 rue Scribe:
-- 1898 - closed 16 New Oxford St. (month unknown)
-- 1903 - moved from 277 Oxford St. to 295 Oxford Street (month unknown)
-- June 1912 - bankrupt; moved from 295 Oxford Street.

History of Reilly moved to P. 45.

Extant gun list moved to p.44