Originally Posted by
WebleyWombler
All text books are out of date almost as soon as they are published . As interested people study the tomes, they discover pieces that do not conform to what is written about . Learning the history is as much fun as owning and shooting them. I have an E series Premier, Batch no. 483 blued version with a mild steel barrel catch. It is dated 1 2 under the grip. I think Bruce states the earliest dated 1972 Premier he knew about before publication bore the date 2 72 and there appears to be an indistinctness as to when the date marking changed format.