- Nov 11, 2009
- 31,187
Just home from Atlantic Guns, with a Happy Not Disapproved email from MSP.
A Webley Mark V, only made for a couple years 1913-1915. Something like 23,000 total, of which the commercial version was made in a narrow SN range, with the total commercial production around 2,000. Most of the commercials were bought by Brit officers heading for the battlefields, and I'm told their names were often engraved on the backstraps.
This one has no such inscription, and looks to be possibly unfired. I jumped on it the minute I saw it, but had no idea of how rare a bird it was until the shop researched it.
A Webley Mark V, only made for a couple years 1913-1915. Something like 23,000 total, of which the commercial version was made in a narrow SN range, with the total commercial production around 2,000. Most of the commercials were bought by Brit officers heading for the battlefields, and I'm told their names were often engraved on the backstraps.
This one has no such inscription, and looks to be possibly unfired. I jumped on it the minute I saw it, but had no idea of how rare a bird it was until the shop researched it.