Flare Gun Forum

Thanks Howard, perhaps someday I'll find a MkII, or an unaltered 1911 MkIII - I imagine that may take a little looking though! I've been considering your 1912 actually, it's on my watch list on GB, and I believe my Greener, Cogswell & Harrison, and my 1915 Webley are out of your collection as we...

20220524_192144.jpg The crown jewel of my flare pistols. Introduced with LoC §15424 (23 August 1910 for Naval service, 9 February 1911 for Land service) the Pistol, Signal, Very's Cartridge Mark III was a minor update to the Mark II in which the trigger spring was improved and associated components...

Mention of this is made in LoC §18294, which governs the manufacture of the MkIII* Very pistol, but it does not appear in the List of Changes volumes published by Skennerton. Does anyone have a copy of this entry? §17550 and §17555 are present and although the entries don't follow a strictly linear ...