I'm not the sharpest blade in the drawer on gunsmithing/design. But here are a couple more questions.
Perkes Pat ejector 10679-86 was still under Perkes' control when trial on the famous 1893 lawsuit for patent infringement between Plaintiff Westley Richards (Deeley) and defendant Perkes was conducted. Scott was nowhere listed in the case so assume Perkes went into this alone?:
https://books.google.com/books?id=PakwAQ...ent&f=false
From this case, Perkes sold his pat ejector 1968-78 to Scott in 1880 but it wasn't used much until 1886 per testimony of Scott.
Here are two Reilly's using the follow-on Perkes patent 10679-86, subject of the law-suit:
-- the above SN 32658 dated per my chart to circa Jan 1893 - 10679-86 use #290 with screws on the fences.
-- and SN 33619 dated per my chart to mid 1895 - 10679-86 use #540 with no screws on the fences:
So the question for this novice is...if the screws are the result of having the Perkes 10679-86 patent ejector on the gun, why screws on one and not the other?
(The general subject of patent use numbers, who paid for the patent use and when and how-much, and who might have the records, important for a historian, will be subject of a separate post)...
