Ivanhoe, welcome back. As soon as Ryedale puts up its catalog for 25 April, I'll post pictures of your guns here. That would be of special interest to this comprehensive history of pin-fires which Steve Nash has put up.
And those 1,000 catalogs are amazing! I try to assemble information on all known serial-numbered Reilly guns for a history I'm writing. Most of those pre-2000 catalogs are not on line and I rely on old-timers remembering that this gun was sold in this auction and forwarding the references.
For now Reilly SN 10054, pretty firmly dated to late summer 1856, is the oldest known extant datable UK pin-fire (argueable). But it would be a treat to spend a week browsing through your catalogs. I hope you consign them to a library or to some historical society. Really someone should scan them and put them on the web. There are companies that do that sort of thing.
Last edited by Argo44; 04/09/21 11:26 PM.
