Thank you sir. That SN does not compute. But then shotgun numberings were sometimes quixotic. It may have been 16249.- i.e. serial numbered in early 1870. If so it could have been originally a pin-fire repurposed as C-F, or an original C-F. Thanks.
It has been added to the list of known Reilly's as "(1)6249" bringing the total of known guns (not necessarily extant given catalog references) to 567 (see p.57 of the Reilly line) with anther 40 or so auction-pictured extant guns but whose serial numbers were never provided. That is a very healthy sample for constructing a date matrix...and the date chart for Reilly's has not been changed for 3 years, indicating it's about as solid as it can get. Gene.
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