Quote Originally Posted by WebleyWombler View Post
I have been mulling this over for a while and have come to a conclusion. Webley used their own special thread screws on all their pistols. If the screws holding this together are a known thread type eg BSF. BA. ME etc. then it is an amateur built piece. If they conform to Webley series standards, it was built by them as there is no chance that an amateur would possess the correct taps and dies.

Webley stampings are often not that deep and I have seen them mostly obliterated by a refinishing job.

The screws are the key as I can't see Webley engineers deviating from their normal working practices, even for a prototype.

Personally, I think its amateur, but would love to be proved wrong.
BUT--if it was done by somebody at Webley---an apprentice or just somebody who fancied tinkering and altering the straight grip then it would have Webley threads.
It was common years ago in engineering places for "foreigners" to be done on Saturday mornings