A Stunning Original Webley .38 Revolver With Almost All Original Mirror Blue Finish. An Absolute Beauty!. One of The Best We Have Seen in Decades.

The Webley .38 revolver was used by the SAS as a sidearm, to great effect. However, it is fair to say the British SAS could also use a rolled up newspaper to great effect, with terminal efficiency, if and when required!

The example they have in the Imperial War Museum is a former SAS issue Webley MkIV. .38

The Webley Mk IV .38 revolver was initially developed during the early 1920s in response to a War Office requirement for a pistol which was lighter and easier to handle than the existing .455 service pistols. Unfortunately for Webley, the Enfield No 2 Mk 1 pistol (see FIR 385) was adopted for service instead. Notwithstanding, Webley put the Mk IV .38 into production for commercial sale. The expansion of the armed forces during the Second World War resulted in a shortage of pistols. As a consequence around 126,000 Webley Mk IV .38 revolvers were purchased by the Ministry of Supply from 1940 onwards.

It is a pistol that is absolutely soaked in history and this is a stunning example, whereas usually those that more often survive to today are in very worn shape indeed due to excessive use.
Deactivated to UK spec and certificated, but extremely sympathetically with clear cylinders and an exceptional action.
Better photos to add, the stunning mirror blue finish is certainly not seen here in its best light at all. But we only had a few minutes to take these photographs.

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