Webley Mk.1 Air Rifle Instruction Booklet.

[Troubledshooter]

These seem to have an even lower survival rate than the rifle itself, so who would like to estimate their value ?

[Sam99]

I have only seen one for sale in recent years .
That sold for £150:00 - ish.

Sam

[GuizeAyose]

Check this reproduction out, hope the link works.

http://www.cornellpubs.com/old-guns/...p?item_id=1267

[Troubledshooter]

Cornell do quite a few good reproduction booklets/manuals, but there's nothing like the real thing.
The full Webley Mk.1 Air Rifle booklet is on my sig. site.

[edbear2]

If it is Webley related, then it will be expensive........I have seen a few oil cans reach dizzy heights in the past year, and point of sale posters and placards also go for huge amounts in comparison to other marques.......are they really that rare, or are Webley chaps the well heeled "upper crust" of the collecting world (Binners excepted).

[ogilkes]

Webley were big, famous and now gone..... Always preferred their rifles to BSA, and clealry other people think the same way. Meorabilia is ging to get more and more popular. You certainly don't see much BSA ephemera on sale. Shame their guns did not sell as well when they made them.

[Garvin]

I s'pose the value will depend on how many people out there have a Webley Mk1 rifle sitting in its original box - or Webley luxury case - complete with contemporary pellet boxes and oil can, needing only a Mk1 instruction booklet to finish the set.

But seriously, it must be worth quite a bit to people who specialise in Webley memorabilia. I know a bloke who probably has a better idea than almost anyone about the value. Look into the mirror, David, and repeat after me...

[Josie & John]

With such a rare item as a Mark 1 booklet, the only real way to determine the value would be to place it in an auction David. These items just don't come up, other than the one already referred to on this thread. Mind you, that's still one more than pre WW1 BSA literature. When did you last see an original copy of the Book Of The BSA Air Rifle for sale for example? I think the Mark 1 catalogue that went for £150 went relatively cheap when you see some of the prices realised for say tins of Black Boy pellets, so with a couple of keen collectors after it, the sky could well be the limit on a good day.

Don't really help, do I?

Kind regards,
John

[Troubledshooter]

I s'pose the value will depend on how many people out there have a Webley Mk1 rifle sitting in its original box - or Webley luxury case - complete with contemporary pellet boxes and oil can, needing only a Mk1 instruction booklet to finish the set.

But seriously, it must be worth quite a bit to people who specialise in Webley memorabilia. I know a bloke who probably has a better idea than almost anyone about the value. Look into the mirror, David, and repeat after me...

This is one occasion when it is extremely difficult to put an accurate value on an item that so rarely comes up for sale, which is why I thought I would try and tap into the accumulated knowledge on this forum, in the chance that someone might know of one that had been sold relatively recently.