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is this a good price
« on: June 17, 2006, 12:07:59 PM »
 Webley  .455 Marks 4  stamped 1903  ( Guessiing on this) 4 inch barrel
it has some outer snall  dings and evidence of rust on the outside barrel
Barrell is clean with some ware to the grooves 
no rust in barrel
grips are good ,no chips has landard ring
asking $550.00
dont tell me mumm you saw me working here
She think I play piano in a cat house

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2006, 10:42:39 PM »
There are Webleys available that are far 'cleaner' than that for less money - but you have to look.

They're marked with the Broad Arrow for an acceptance stamp - but there are also other markings that can indicate it's history.

The Pistol, Webley, Mark IV (Common) was introduced by the List of Changes,  para. 787 - published October 1899 and was the standard British revolver from the Anglo-Boer War to the beginning of WWI.

Out of curiosity - how will your character come by owning it, along with the necessary ammunition?

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2006, 06:28:12 AM »
knuckles mcDaninel was from the Isles of ireland and got i was forcefully
over taken by A HMS  that though that knucklles make a godd canidate for service in her majesties army  .knuckles resistHe wrestled with the guardman and accidentl the gun discharded killing the soldier.
knuckles took the gun and vanished....
Later Knuckles finds him self in America
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Re: is this a good price
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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 09:10:14 AM »
Except that 'Press Gangs' were no longer being used, since British impressment ended in practice after 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars — the Royal Navy fought no major naval actions again until World War I, a century later, when conscription was used for all the military services.

Aboard ship - the 'guardman' would've been a Royal Marine working as one of a pair and armed with a rifle, if at all, since revolvers weren't issued on a wholesale basis to Other Ranks.

Just curious.

It's your money - the advice still stands as valid.

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2006, 09:30:37 PM »
OK how about this I stole it from a drunk officer while he was in our pub.
and i jumped a frieghter to America.  hows that...
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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2006, 09:56:56 PM »
Maybe - if you explain why he was armed - since 'the Troubles' were yet to come, as was the formation of the I.R.A. in 1919 - and there'd've been no reason for it.

A British Officer was pretty well safe from crime in Ireland, drunk or sober - retaliation was swift and would've been carried out by his men...

Your character as a Piano Player would be equally well-represented with a good Webley Bull Dog or Webley R.I.C. - since both were offered for commercial sale during the time frame - as were the Belgian copies of same.

These are Black Powder rounds - but they can be loaded for easily.

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2006, 09:35:31 AM »
dang nab it . what ever i came up with any thing you have a counter statement
SO let drop the hold Bloody thing

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2006, 03:55:29 PM »
Dang St George, you sure are a wet blanket.  Stop stepping on someone else's fantasy.  He can come about it anyway he wants, its his story and I'm sticken to it. 

The Troubles started after "The '45" when my ancestor, Joseph Paisley of The House of Abbercorn, brought the Scotish Mercenarys to Northern Ireand.  These were the origional Orangemen.

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2006, 02:53:38 PM »
Actually, he met an ex-Confederate Calvary Sergeant named LZ Walker, who, for a small sum allowed him to hop into his time transference machine and voila! He was onboard one of Her Majesty's ships and grabbed the piece from said Royal Marine, along with ammunition by the ton, and was "ZAAPPED!" yowee! back to 1873 so fast that Marine's head is STILL spinnin'! The ammo caused so muc trouble on the machine that said Honourable Irishman was coerced to buy drinks, freely, for said Sergeant for the remainder of the night!

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Re: is this a good price
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2006, 08:25:57 PM »
thats right LZ and im sticking to it ,lie or fact!
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