Wallis & Wallis
Lot 363
A good .25” Webley Service Air Rifle Mark II, number S 11024, final type with push button barrel release, no safety catch, and centre hinged aperture sight, the walnut butt with chequered panels. GWO & Clean condition, retaining much original blued finish (small areas of surface rust beneath front of air chamber); in its original card box, the lid with printed label with the calibre and serial number added in blue pencil, and also marked “Special M”, the box lined with its original Non Rust paper and containing a rare original card packet of 500 Webley .25 Special Pellets, with pale blue printed label and a tin of modern .25” pellets. GC (slight damage to one end of the box lid and some wear to pellet box, but still in above average condition). Plate 10 364 A .22” prototype RH91 underlever air rifle, produced by The Park Rifle Company, 42” overall, barrel 20½” including silencer, the breech stamped “The Park Rifle Co Ltd. S/No 0692, UK Pat No 2181524 USA Pat No 4870945”, with bolt loading, the barrel situated above the air chamber, with nicely grained walnut target stock with cheek piece, roughened fore end and grip with thumb hole. GWO & C, the metalwork in plain unfinished state (some surface rust to barrel), with a photocopied article on Roy Hutchinson from “Airgun World” of May 1992, showing this gun on the right of the plate.
