Thanks for clarifying Mick and thanks for latest additions.
There are certainly a good few Webley pistols out there.
John
Two more for the pot.
Post war slant grip Mk1, 338
Junior, 145, Sept 1972.
The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.
Thanks for clarifying Mick and thanks for latest additions.
There are certainly a good few Webley pistols out there.
John
Hi John
3 pics here as requested. With regard to stampings, the 093 at muzzle, I assumed was a batch no. Could the 10 93 refer to batch no.93 of October of that year? as per scratched date, 25/10/49....a long shot!
VBR
Andy
Thanks Andy,
1093 is the batch or assembly number. I couldn't make out the scratched date in your pics. It is unclear if the batch/assembly numbers were a code or (more likely) ran consecutively until the batch was completed before starting from the beginning once again. I am hoping that as many collectors as possible supply letter codes and dates of Premiers, as that may provide a pattern. There have already been a couple of anomalies with the Premiers, so deciphering some kind of order is not all that easy.
Kind regards,
John
Hi John,
Mk1 814 on front plug 1814 under left grip,early post war B'ham 4 no warning on breech plug.
Junior 1292 on front plug and under left grip.
Senior 86 on front plug and under left grip,post war B'ham 4.
Senior 486 on front plug,4486 under left grip,early post war B'ham 4,no warning on breech plug,extended barrel knurling.
Premier 877 on front plug and under left grip,B series 4 pin blued.
Regards,
Chris.
Hi John,
the only other number under the left grip is a very faint small 5 stamped 12mm to the right of the grip screw hole.
Kind regards,
Chris.
Hi John,just remembered my first Webley Senior was given to me in the early sixties so would have been B'ham 4 and was No.504,now probably history as after many years of service we used to fill the cylinder with Swan Vesta match heads which produced fairly spectacular results including shearing all the barrel linkage pins when the piston blew back!!
Happy youthful days which is now why minty boxed examples are worth so much.
Still sold ir for a fiver though in 1965.
Also had 227 B'ham 4 which was given to my son some some years ago.
I will also look at the numbers on the cutaway model I showed a while ago.
Kind regards,
Chris.
Hi John - a few more for your list:
Junior: 173, 2208
Mk1: 035, 673, 2013
Senior: 317, 1528
Premier: 143, 522
A couple more for you
Junior 132
Junior 1507 with an A behind the trigger
Premier 837 E series 7/74
Got a Mk1 somewhere too, I'll post when I find it.
atb
dogsbody
Junior Batch no 1
This is the one troubledshooter mentioned in an earlier post