Product Details
WEBLEY & SCOTT, BIRMINGHAM & LONDON
A .455 SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL, MODEL 'MKI HIGH VELOCITY', serial no. 97801,
for and dated 1913, with blued exposed 5in. barrel, integral blade fore-sight, square-section slide with top ejection, adjustable notch rear-sight, exposed hammer, blued frame with grip safe, chequered hard rubber grips, lanyard ring at heel and together with a private purchase full-flap leather holster with a magazine pouch to the outside (added later) and an original spare magazine
Provenance: A copy of the publication 'The Journal of the Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association. Vol 3 No.1.' accompanies this lot. On page 35, Chapter III 'Military Automatics', the author Hugh Pollard's work on Automatic Pistols is discussed and it is written "the serial number of his own (Pollard's) example is noted as 97801"
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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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