Welcome to right this moment’s Photo of the Day! right here we’ve an instance of the primary “automatic revolver”. This is the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver and I had thought that it had already had its personal Photo of The Day. Yesterday I discussed it in my Curious Relics #054: All I Want For Christmas – Curious Relics Edition article and came upon that I had solely talked about it in articles. The Webley-Fosbery is principally an everyday Webley higher meeting modified to robotically cock after every shot. The recoil sends the higher meeting rearward and a pin on the body indexes the cylinder which traces up the subsequent shot. This is advantageous since every shot is successfully a single motion set off pull which is often a technique for higher accuracy. The downside? It was designed for army use and did, in actual fact, see battle fronts of World War One however its mechanism is inclined to dust and dirt and small parts are liable to breakage. It is without doubt one of the rarest and sought-after old-time revolvers on the market.
“The Webley-Fosbery revolvers built based on designs by Lt. Col. G. V. Fosbery are among the rarest and most interesting of all revolvers and are some of the few “automatic” revolver designs. Less than 5,000 of the revolvers cut up throughout a number of variations have been manufactured earlier than manufacturing resulted in 1924. This is a Model 1902 variant. Like all Fosberys, it makes use of a novel “automatic” mechanism. It is a real revolver with cartridges held in a rotating six shot cylinder, however the cylinder is turned by recoil: the highest part of the revolver shifts backwards, cocks the hammer, and prepares the subsequent chamber using a spur within the prime strap and zig-zag grooves on the cylinder. This mechanism permits for quicker firing whereas sustaining the low set off pull of a single motion revolver. The Fosbery design was reported to have been as quick if not quicker than its journal fed semi-automatic counterparts and as quick to load if a pace loader was used and is thought to have been bought by British army officers and to have been used throughout each world wars. It has an octagon barrel with a stable rib and a blade entrance sight, and the rear sight is integral to the highest strap latch. The prime strap is marked “WEBLEY·FOSBERY” on the left. The left facet of the body is marked with the “winged bullet/W&S” trademark adopted by “455 CORDITE”, and the best facet has the serial quantity. The serial quantity can also be calmly hand marked on the grips and is stamped on among the parts together with the rear face of the cylinder (partial).”
Lot 1563: Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver – Exceptional Webley-Fosbery Automatic Target Model Revolver. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved December 14, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/81/1563/webleyfosbery-automatic-revolver.
