Webley Junior at Auction

[trevor1]

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Has anyone come across a Junior with a hole drilled in the cylinder like Item number 231?

[Lakey]

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Has anyone come across a Junior with a hole drilled in the cylinder like Item number 231?

Never seen that before. It looks like there are extra holes on the grips as well, so maybe done for mounting onto a board for open display, so if that was the case, maybe the hole in the cylinder was done to render the gun useless if stolen off the counter??? Just a guess

Lakey

[Troubledshooter]

Never seen that before. It looks like there are extra holes on the grips as well, so maybe done for mounting onto a board for open display, so if that was the case, maybe the hole in the cylinder was done to render the gun useless if stolen off the counter??? Just a guess

Lakey

I would tend to agree with this explanation.

[Josie & John]

Hi Trev,

One of the Webley Juniors pictured on the factory display board during the 1970s appears to have had the same cylinder hole. Not sure why, as the pistol was fixed to the board via external clamps from what I can see. A black & white photo of the board appears in a 1970s issue of Guns Review as well as pg 155 of the 3rd edition of The Airgun Book by John Walter.

Kind regards,

John

[trevor1]

Yes John,and in one of John Atkin's articles on rare Webley bits and pieces,as well! I think it could even be the same pistol......If it is,it has been verbally described as a "sectionalised display pistol". Presumably the cut-out bits are on the left side?
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On the other hand,it could just be an old Junior that has holes drilled in it to deactivate it!Regards,Trev

[Josie & John]

Yes John,and in one of John Atkin's articles on rare Webley bits and pieces,as well! I think it could even be the same pistol......If it is,it has been verbally described as a "sectionalised display pistol". Presumably the cut-out bits are on the left side?
http://s864.photobucket.com/user/cin...csyr4.jpg.html
On the other hand,it could just be an old Junior that has holes drilled in it to deactivate it!Regards,Trev

Hi Trev,

Yes, you are right - John pictured it too. If it is the ex factory Junior, it would be an interesting addition to any collection. More so than the ex so called Webley Museum pieces, which were only assembled several years before the factory closed and do not represent models that had been kept at the factory from new.

Kind regards,

John

[micky2]

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Has anyone come across a Junior with a hole drilled in the cylinder like Item number 231?

That's strange never seen anything like it until a few days ago when a Giffard came up at auction, that had a hole drilled in the trigger block for whatever reason.