This 8 bore Reilly shotgun SN
21945 (1879) is for sale at the 8 December Gavin Gardner auction:
http://gavingardiner.com/BidCat/Sea...Submit+now.y=8&Submit+now=Submit+nowE. M. REILLY
AN 8-BORE HAMMER GUN, NO. 21965
36-inch damascus barrels with 3 1/4-inch chambers, about 1/4 and 3/4 choke borings, the rounded frame, rebounding back locks, hammers and rotary underlever with fine scroll engraving, 14-inch figured stock including rubber recoil pad, 10lb. 2oz., nitro re-proof
S58
£3500-4500
The same gun sold in 1972 as "stock, action, forend" with "barrels available":
The forend, stock and action (barrels available) of an E.M.Reilly & Co. London 8 Bore, double barrelled hammer wildfowling gun, Serial No. 21965. Back action locks with rebounding hammers, engraved with panels of scrolling foliage. straight grip stock. Weller & Dufty 03/10/1972
How were the barrels rehabilitated over the past 50 years? Was reproofing the only issue with the 1972 advertisement? I was sort of under the impression that "barrels available" was pretty much a death sentence for them.