Product Details
WEBLEY & SCOTT, BIRMINGHAM & LONDON
A RARE BOXED .38 (ACP) SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL, MODEL 'LOCKED BREECH MILITARY', serial no. 46503,
for 1910 and retailed by 'ROBINSON & CO., SINGAPORE', with blued exposed 5in. barrel, integral blade fore-sight, square-section slide with top ejection, adjustable notch rear-sight, internal hammer, blued frame with grip safe, push-button slide release, chequered walnut grips and retaining virtually all its factory blued finish, together with its maroon paper covered card carton bearing a red label stating 'WEBLEY & SCOTT LTD .38 AUTOMATIC' (some staining and damage to corner) and its rare original sales and instruction manual leaflet
Provenance: According to records, serial number 46503 was completed in 1910 as a side safety model which it clearly is not (see page 84 of 'Worldwide Webley' by Stephen Cuthbertson. Instead it would appear to conform to the original prototype Mark I model of 1909, of which supposedly only thirteen pieces in .38 were produced. However, this pistol has the recoil bar and the sixteen (as opposed to thirty-two) thumb-grip slide of the later model.
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Estimate £2,000-3,000
S5 - Sold as a Section 5 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act, Sections 7.3 and 7.1 Eligible.
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