Webley Senior .177
Discussion
Well, you may remember my post on 2 cheap air rifles I picked up for £7.50...
One was working, one wasn't. Broken one was a Japanese cheapo and the other was a BSA something or other.
Bloke contacts me and says he needs the bits from the broken one and will swap me an old pistol he's had lying around...
Fine, no problem, happy with the working BSA and the pistol will be fun.
Turns out the rifle is a Webley Senior .177 serial number S15384 and from research is worth north of £100. It is boxed, has been kept in excellent condition and works perfectly. Looks brand new.
Guy said it was his dads and he was a keen collector.
Result.
Does anyone else have any old interesting stuff like this that they have acquired by accident not knowing it is worth a few £?
One was working, one wasn't. Broken one was a Japanese cheapo and the other was a BSA something or other.
Bloke contacts me and says he needs the bits from the broken one and will swap me an old pistol he's had lying around...
Fine, no problem, happy with the working BSA and the pistol will be fun.
Turns out the rifle is a Webley Senior .177 serial number S15384 and from research is worth north of £100. It is boxed, has been kept in excellent condition and works perfectly. Looks brand new.
Guy said it was his dads and he was a keen collector.
Result.
Does anyone else have any old interesting stuff like this that they have acquired by accident not knowing it is worth a few £?
We have a webley senior at home too. Never knew it was worth that much!
I don't have anything that I have "discovered" was worth lots of money, but I have been very pleasantly surprised by how much value people have put on some of my woodwork or stuff I have restored. My coffee table is one I made about 5 years ago from a section of the trunk of a tree that got hit by lightning at my old school. I would never sell it as it has a lot of meaning to me, but I have had people very interested in buying it and offered a couple of hundred for it.
I also have an interesting old card table that I bought at an auction for £15 and spent a few hours sanding it down and oiling it, which people have also shown interest in.
I don't have anything that I have "discovered" was worth lots of money, but I have been very pleasantly surprised by how much value people have put on some of my woodwork or stuff I have restored. My coffee table is one I made about 5 years ago from a section of the trunk of a tree that got hit by lightning at my old school. I would never sell it as it has a lot of meaning to me, but I have had people very interested in buying it and offered a couple of hundred for it.
I also have an interesting old card table that I bought at an auction for £15 and spent a few hours sanding it down and oiling it, which people have also shown interest in.
When my grandad died earlier in the year we almost lost two shotguns, ie
Grandad pesters old man to get his shotgun certificate
Old man never does
Grandad dies,
We now have two techincally illegal shotguns sat in my nans house.
Thankfully though the firearms unit and firearms officer we dealt with was superb and looked after them
Here is the one, circa 1950 Harrington Richards single bore game shotgun, light weight and f
king hell does it kick, good fun to shoot with but I wouldn't want to shoot all day with it
Here is the second, this is my great grandfathers this was a hand built made to measure for his size and weight which isnt to far of mine.
So far all I know is that it was commissioned circa 1918-1924 made by the Midland Gun Company, and is a custome version of "The Very Gun"
Twin barrel, side by side with "dished in sights" makes it very hard to shoot, but very rewarding
Left hand barrel is full choke
Right hand barrel is quarter choke IIRC
Hammer lock
Twin trigger
Sadly though it needs a service, took it clay shooting 15 shots it missfired twice which I am not to happy with,
Load shell in
Lock barrel
Hammer back
Stand ready
"PULL!"
Not nice holding a shotgun in your hand which could go off at any second, and you have to be so gentle to let the hammer back off, so it does not go off.
Grandad pesters old man to get his shotgun certificate
Old man never does
Grandad dies,
We now have two techincally illegal shotguns sat in my nans house.
Thankfully though the firearms unit and firearms officer we dealt with was superb and looked after them
Here is the one, circa 1950 Harrington Richards single bore game shotgun, light weight and f
king hell does it kick, good fun to shoot with but I wouldn't want to shoot all day with itHere is the second, this is my great grandfathers this was a hand built made to measure for his size and weight which isnt to far of mine.
So far all I know is that it was commissioned circa 1918-1924 made by the Midland Gun Company, and is a custome version of "The Very Gun"
Twin barrel, side by side with "dished in sights" makes it very hard to shoot, but very rewarding
Left hand barrel is full choke
Right hand barrel is quarter choke IIRC
Hammer lock
Twin trigger
Sadly though it needs a service, took it clay shooting 15 shots it missfired twice which I am not to happy with,
Load shell in
Lock barrel
Hammer back
Stand ready
"PULL!"
- click
Not nice holding a shotgun in your hand which could go off at any second, and you have to be so gentle to let the hammer back off, so it does not go off.
My Grandfather died a few years ago and left me a pair of shotguns. A pair of side by side Purdeys.
I am led to believe that they are worth quite a bit. They are currently in storage with our local gunshop as I am still waiting for my licence to come through.
I haven't shot a gun for a number of years, but very much looking forward to using these!
I am led to believe that they are worth quite a bit. They are currently in storage with our local gunshop as I am still waiting for my licence to come through.
I haven't shot a gun for a number of years, but very much looking forward to using these!
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