Well, as nobody else has ventured a guess (in well over 4 years), I'm going to say yes.

I'm quite willing to believe the shocking tale of the dubious 0001 Eclipse serials.

Except I believe it likely that it (they!) would be stamped 000001.

I say this because I have serial 000198.

I've seen # 000005 advertised for sale two years ago.

And there's always something wierd / dodgy / confusing - about Webley numbers.

Back to the Eclipse serials, I find it odd that they started in 1988 at 1, and seemed to run out of steam at over 860000 by the year 2000.

That would be over eight hundred and sixty thousand Eclipses' made in a period of 12 years - While it took HW from 1955 -to- 1984 to make a million guns (all-models - in total).

Afraid I don't believe that...