Quote Originally Posted by DrGunn View Post
I tried the burn and sniff test and got the distinctive burnt hair smell so they are definitely horn. Under a sufficiently bright light they are slightly translucent with an effect similar to tiger eye - it’s almost a shame they are stained. Given that my Warrior is a second series with a serial number I can only assume that the change happened later in its production history.
But the odd thing is that my first series model, with half-moon trigger guard and no serial number, which must surely predate yours, has a vulcanite grip. I would have assumed that when Frank Clarke handed over the pistol to Accles and Shelvoke for bulk manufacture, the use of horn grips would have been abandoned at that stage, and probably even well before. It looks like there may have been some random use of old stock grips from time to time, perhaps when supplies of the vulcanite grips were short.