Original British WWI Polished 1917 Dated MkIII* Webley & Scott Brass Flare Signal Pistol - Matching Serial 65000 Manufacture Type_Original Items Heavily depleted by battle casualties

Heavily depleted by battle casualties

These flags were attractive souvenirs for GI troops at the end of the war

superintendent of the recently created Harper's Ferry Armory

the leMW was a rifled muzzle-loader that had hydraulic cylinders on each side of the tube to absorb the recoil forces and spring recuperators to return the tube to the firing position

The unique final grind cross grain is definitive for WWII German production

Original British WWI Polished 1917 Dated MkIII* Webley & Scott Brass Flare Signal Pistol - Matching Serial 65000 Manufacture Type_Original Items Heavily depleted by battle casualtiesOriginal Item: Only one available. This is a very nice Great War produced example of the English military Mark III* flare pistol, as issued and used during the last part of World War I. This particular pistol was upgraded to III* during the interwar period, when it was still in service, and was probably still in use during WWII. The Mark III signal pistol was adopted in 1911, as an improved version of the earlier Mark II pistol, which had been adopted