Webley Premier Question.

[Mr. Gen]

There are certainly quite a few uncoded examples known from the early 1970s, some of which also lack a date stamp.

My own example is numbered 808. It is uncoded and undated but otherwise identical to an E series Premier.

I wonder if Webley decided to drop the letter code after E for a while, then brought it back with the F, which on the examples I know of is stamped in a smaller font than the A to E coded pistols.

A further anomaly is the large E on the later unblued pistols that have a black baked on finish - E for Enamel?

John

And I’ve got blued examples of both small and large E just to mess it up 😁

[archer24]

I often wonder if apprentices were responsible for doing the stampings, they are often badly done, not in the same place and not close to even. I’ve even got a 3 the wrong way round.
The batch numbers are usually perfect.
My thoughts are if the apprentice was off sick or holiday they just didn’t get done, not knowing 60 years later a load of old blokes would be speculating what happened!!

[laverdabru]

I often wonder if apprentices were responsible for doing the stampings, they are often badly done, not in the same place and not close to even. I’ve even got a 3 the wrong way round.
The batch numbers are usually perfect.
My thoughts are if the apprentice was off sick or holiday they just didn’t get done, not knowing 60 years later a load of old blokes would be speculating what happened!!

Or missed them deliberately, thinking 'this'll mess them up in the future'