New guy doing research

Quite a while back my grandmother passed away. While cleaning out her house I found an old leather gun case with a revolver in it. Since my brothers are married to liberal, guns are evil, wives I was given the revolver.

I recognized the Enfield design but knew very little about them. It appears I have a 1942 Albion Mk1** in .38s&w. I inspected it and found no flaws so I got some ammo from a friend, fired it six times, and put it away.

So now I'm interested in history, shootability, value, and collectability. I have pictures that I'll post in the proper forum.

Answering your questions about shootability, history and collectability I, as a "history freak" will say only this --- "I WANT! I WANT!"

Seriously, WWII vintage, appears to be in excellent condition, unaltered, and original finish by all appearances - definitely collectable and definitely shoot-able. As for value, that depends on whether a potential buyer is a collector or a shooter, and how badly he wants it and how deep are his pockets.

She's a beut, I see a supreme opportunity to irritate your sister in-laws, a little payback. Tell 'em it turns out to be a one of a kind and worth around 150K....:madsmile:

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Originally Posted by WarPig1976

She's a beut, I see a supreme opportunity to irritate your sister in-laws, a little payback. Tell 'em it turns out to be a one of a kind and worth around 150K....:madsmile:

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I seriously had that thought. Some ridiculous number way inflated.

It's about perfect. Many didn't fare so well.

It is modified (but not very well.....) to a mid 50's UK military spec with the overhang of the left grip removed to allow thumb clearance for the barrel strap. The G-77 is the steel batch number. It is the cheapest of the No2 revolvers and is missing oine of the so called safety features that featured in the early production.

Made at Glasgow by Albion who made trucks and Busses, out of bombing range of the Luftwaffe. But, alas, not for long as they soon started to hit Glasow too. To be honest, the manufacture of postols was an ask too far for Albion and after a good try, the reverted back to what they did best. Making trucks and busses!

There is a good little book about these revolvers, published by Skennerton and written by Mark Stamps who writes on this forum occasionally. We had these revolvers issued right up until the mid 70's

It was said that in post war Glasgow, not usually renowned for it's peace and tranquility, that these Albion revolvers were a hallmark of the Glasgow gangland killings and seized by the bucketful. There was a sort of distribution of them between the factory workers and the gang lords. A sort of lend lease, only on a larger scale!

Is the circled area what is modified? Now that you point it out I'm pretty sure I see what you mean. Looks like it was done with a file or something.

Still even with the altered grips a nice pistol. The grips are a lot easier to find and cheaper than that pistol. I have one Albion as well. They don't seem to pop up too much.

That's it. A 'C' class modification, - to be done when time permits. Done loads of them. Done with a file and finished to a polish then a coat of what we called knacker-laquer!

Just good old clunkers but there always seemed to be a shortage of decent .38" ammo. I had an Albion issued to me in 1970. Most of the parts are marked with an interlocked AM logo