Webley Air Pistol Batch Nos
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:23 pm
Hello,
As all Webley fans know the company stopped annotating their air pistols with Ser Nos after WW2 and instead used Batch Nos which made accurate manufacturing dating a bit harder for us collectors.
Over on BBS a thread has been started to log post-war Webley air pistol Batch Nos in an attempt to establish batch number sizes and definite evidence of Batch No duplication.
The poster of the thread has provided guidelines as follows:
"The idea is to record post WW2 batch numbers for the Mk1, Senior and Junior air pistols. No need to post pics yet but if two are identified with the same number, then we'll look for further details. We just need to be mindful a pistol may have changed ownership over time and we need to be sure we are not recording the same pistol twice. It is also possible two pistols with the same apparent batch number may be identified, which were made years apart but share the same number. Again, these examples will warrant further study if and when they are encountered".
It might also be helpful if we can establish whether the pistols are pre 1958 (B4) or later.
Obviously, the larger the database the more likely we are to learn anything of interest. It would be helpful if any CAPA members who are not also on BBS could provide details outlined above. I will then pass these on so that hopefully we can generate a large enough database to learn a bit more.
Regards
Brian
As all Webley fans know the company stopped annotating their air pistols with Ser Nos after WW2 and instead used Batch Nos which made accurate manufacturing dating a bit harder for us collectors.
Over on BBS a thread has been started to log post-war Webley air pistol Batch Nos in an attempt to establish batch number sizes and definite evidence of Batch No duplication.
The poster of the thread has provided guidelines as follows:
"The idea is to record post WW2 batch numbers for the Mk1, Senior and Junior air pistols. No need to post pics yet but if two are identified with the same number, then we'll look for further details. We just need to be mindful a pistol may have changed ownership over time and we need to be sure we are not recording the same pistol twice. It is also possible two pistols with the same apparent batch number may be identified, which were made years apart but share the same number. Again, these examples will warrant further study if and when they are encountered".
It might also be helpful if we can establish whether the pistols are pre 1958 (B4) or later.
Obviously, the larger the database the more likely we are to learn anything of interest. It would be helpful if any CAPA members who are not also on BBS could provide details outlined above. I will then pass these on so that hopefully we can generate a large enough database to learn a bit more.
Regards
Brian