Imagine getting this for your 10th birthday....
Surrey's Anglo Saxon
Imagine getting this for your 10th birthday....
Last edited by Binners; 24-04-2023 at 03:59 PM.
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I would love to get this any day -- Webley Junior? -- just the right companion for my Webley Jaguar.
The collector formerly known as micky
I would not mind it on my 77th birthday. to late for my 10thOriginally Posted by Binners
Imagine getting this for your 10th birthday....
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I thought you weren't going to open the box!Imagine getting this for your 10th birthday....
Was it temptation or did it carefully sneak out for a breath of fresh air after decades in the dark?
What a beauty.
John
Currently looking for Baikal Makarov pistols with the following prefixes to the serial number: 98, T01, T09, T21, T22
Prefer boxed or cased but will consider loose examples too.
Surrey's Anglo Saxon
Truth is Matey
Both ends of the wrapping were open and it slid out about 6'' so had a peep.
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Not sure I could have resisted either!
Currently looking for Baikal Makarov pistols with the following prefixes to the serial number: 98, T01, T09, T21, T22
Prefer boxed or cased but will consider loose examples too.
I'm happy with mine
what a stunner very nice
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Was given a similar boxed Junior a decade or so back, by a then workmate, on the death of his father. It had been his grandfathers, & seems to have been moved from attic to attic since the early '60's.
3 of my 6 grandchildren have used it, but sadly shown no further interest. Gun itself is still in vgc, but the box itself suffered some damage since - still, the portion with the Webley sticker survived, & the address label.
When I temporarily lost most use of my arm for several months a few years back, it was about the only gun I could lift & use...
Makes a nice companion piece to the Falcon & Mk 3's.
Bru
Last edited by laverdabru; 25-04-2023 at 02:22 PM.
Webley Mk3 x2, Falcon & Junior rifles, HW35x2, AirSporter x2, Gold Star, Meteors x2, Diana 25. SMK B19, Webley Senior, Premier, Hurricane x 2, Tempest, Dan Wesson 8", Crosman 3576, Legends PO8.
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I had one in similar condition with a price of £4-0-0 written on the side of the box.
It's surprising any of the 'boxes' survived, as the thin corrugated cardboard they were made from was very susceptible to damp.
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Just found the box. Not quite as badly damaged as I thought. It has a from B'ham 4 label, addressed to an AV Balter/Bealter of Church St, Malvern. & Per £(?)25/56, with nothing in the Date space. Wonder what that could mean? 25 shillings in 1956? Seems unlikely, as the Thrale book shows an advert with one priced at £4.19.6d in 1963.
When I 1st moved to Malvern late '70's there was a gunshop in Church Street, but can't recall the name. I do remember the owner showing me a pre war Webley when I went in for pellets for my Mk 1.
ATB
Bru
Last edited by laverdabru; 25-04-2023 at 09:01 PM.
Webley Mk3 x2, Falcon & Junior rifles, HW35x2, AirSporter x2, Gold Star, Meteors x2, Diana 25. SMK B19, Webley Senior, Premier, Hurricane x 2, Tempest, Dan Wesson 8", Crosman 3576, Legends PO8.
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Sorry to keep trotting this out. Not birthday but 11th Christmas 1951 and still with us. No box etc but better still, for us, the other photo appeared on social media seventy years later.
Squint a bit and there's our Webley in the shop window exactly as remembered ogling every time we passed with Mam and Dad.
"Over my dead body" from Mam without breaking stride. They'd already bought it of course.
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