Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver
name: label: maker
content: Webley & Scott
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Webley-Fosbery Revolver was developed by Lieutenant Colonel George Vincent Fosbery VC and produced by Webley & Scott from 1901 to 1924. The revolver is cocked by sliding the top half of the piece back and releasing it, much like cocking a semiautomatic pistol. When fired, recoil forces the action, cylinder, and barrel backwards on the frame which rotates the cylinder and cocks the action. This is a six-shot, .455 Webley revolver, although eight-shot, .38 ACP revolvers were available. It was never officially adopted by the British military, but some were privately purchased by officers from the Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.67530M
label: accession number
content: 243899
label: serial number
content: 758
label: catalog number
content: 67530M
objectType: label: Object Name
content: revolver, centerfire, automatic
label: Other Terms
content: Revolver, Semiautomatic; Firearms; Center Fire; .455 In; Rifled; 02; 2H; Da
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/8 in x 7 in x 1 3/4 in; 21.9075 cm x 17.78 cm x 4.445 cm