Good observation....Reilly used other Perkes patents. Here's an article in Diggory's "Vintage Gun Journal" Feb 2020 which mentions this action....if Reilly were still using in in 1895, there must have been economic advantages for him in selling it:

https://www.vintageguns.co.uk/magazine/other-avenues

"Some patents, like the Perkes back-action of 1878, reduced this ‘drag’ on the falling barrels by cocking one lock with the fall of the barrel and the other upon closing. However, such actions were over-complicated and although variously used by Holland & Holland, Boss and Cogswell & Harrison, the idea fell into disuse."

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