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    Curious when Beeman started importing the FWB 65 pistol

    I just purchased a FWB 65 pistol in a box that was mailed from Beemans on January 2, 1979. The serial number is 104001 with Beeman embossed next to it. See pic. Curious how early a Beeman import this pistol is? Anyone have a earlier Beeman embossed number?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 45flint View Post
    I just purchased a FWB 65 pistol in a box that was mailed from Beemans on January 2, 1979. The serial number is 104001 with Beeman embossed next to it. See pic. Curious how early a Beeman import this pistol is? Anyone have a earlier Beeman embossed number?

    http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...s05fpxe7x.jpeg
    I don't know exactly when Beeman started importing the FWB65, but as in so many things airgun he was following the lead of Robert Law, who ran Air Rifle Headquarters in the 1960s and '70s, until he went bust and humiliatingly had to sell his remaining stock to Robert Beeman...

    I have a catalogue that Robert Law pubished in 1966 - less than a year or so after the model 65 appeared in Germany - which devotes acres of space to extolling the pistol's many virtues. The word hyperbole doesn't do justice to the language used!
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