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Just picked up a nice War Finish Webley MkIV
Союз нерушимый республик свободных Сплотила навеки Великая Русь. Да здравствует созданный волей народов Единый, могучий Советский Союз!
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02-11-2011 09:29 PM
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Very Nice Webley. You should be proud to own such a piece. I have an Enfield and love it...Congrats on a great find...
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Picked up a nice all matching War Finish MkIV at a show yesterday. Not as nice on the outside as Claven's, lots of chips in the paint, but it's minty inside. $275 for pistol, holster and 50 rds ammo. Now if I can just find an un-bobbed Enfield No.2 I'll really be...
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Portland Show was real winner. Found a WW2 dated .455 Webley, a 1943 Dated No2 Mk1 with tanker holster. Have seen many more of these coming out of the wood work lately. Now if I could find 500 rounds of .455 to go along with the 770 rounds of .38 S&W I picked up last week, I would be a happy camper....LOL
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Originally Posted by
Claven2
The basic story is that RSAF Enfield basically STOLE the Webley design and made the Enfield No.2MkI revolver - very nearly an outright clone of the Webley. Nevertheless, Enfield could not supply these in enough quantity durign the war so a large quantity of real Webleys also had to be purchased and this is one of those.
Claven2, have you ever compared the internal mechanisms of the Enfield revolver and the Webley Mark IV revolver? They are as different internally as chalk and cheese. The Enfield has an immensely stronger and easier to adjust mechanism, courtesy of Captain Boy's original design which is an amalgamation of the best features of the Webley, Colt, and Smith&Wesson revolver mechanism of that era. As far as the hinge mechanism, it was a public domain non patentable feature so nothing was stolen from Webley on that score. When Webley&Scott sued the British government to recover its expenses, it was granted an exceedingly small settlement by the court in its decision on the matter. I believe that was the correct decision all things considered.