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Old 10-02-2016, 08:01 PM
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Welcome to this forum.

This is the correct section to post it.

You have " .455 Mk II Hand Ejector - 2nd Model" British service revolver made under contract with S&W.

You didn't answer the question about a hole in the butt for a lanyard swivel, does it have a hole?

To be legal, it should have a serial # stamped on the butt of the grip frame to one side of the hole.

There are three basic categories of .455 (Webley) Mk II chambered Hand Ejector revolvers made by S&W under contract to the British for WW I. Yours is the 3rd category:

3. “.455 Mk II HE 2nd Model”
The 2nd Model continued in the .455 1st Model TL Brit serial range beginning #5462 to #74755, shipped 1915-17. The Canadian military also bought 14,500* .455 2nd Models. And 1105 2nd Models were released for commercial sales in the US, shipped Dec 1917 to Shapleigh Hardware in St. Louis [S&W, N&J pg. 216].

*Canadian military shipments of 14,500:

-1500 Shipped after Aug. 1915
-850 Shipped thru December 24th, 1915
-150 Shipped thru March 31st, 1916
-6,000 Shipped thru July 22nd, 1916 (at least 1 shipped July 29th, 1916 .455 Hand Ejector 45 Colt see post #10)
-6000 Shipped February 10, 1917
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Last edited by Hondo44; 10-02-2016 at 08:20 PM.
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