The patent # that covers that block safety design is #14,488 of 1884 under the name Frederick Beesley. The patent for the action is #425 also of 1884. I do not know when Mr. Beesley sold the patents/rights of the designs over to Henry A.A. Thorn, but assume it had to be soon after the patents were registered. Mr. David Baker writes of having seen some Beesely marked guns that used this action.
The ejectors are a T. Perkes Patent system and are not as good as the southgate style, but like stated above, if un-monkeyed with, they work just fine.
Beesely filed at least 3 patents in 1884. It is also the year that he left his wife and children and married a widow of some means. I believe he sold his rights to Thorn either in 1884 or 1885.
Pete
