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Good Webley No 2 British Bulldog revolver.

Birmingham manufactured Webley Bulldog revolvers are becoming scarce and in my estimate are outnumbered by generic examples by at least 10 to 1. This is a particularly handsome looking Webley “British Bulldog” revolver in obsolete .44” Webley (.442”) calibre. The revolver has a faded finish but little or no pitting and has excellent grips. The top strap is marked “British Bulldog” and the barrel has the maker’s name P. Webley & Son with Birmingham & London stamped on the side of the barrel. The revolver features Webley’s famous flying bullet logo and the model number and calibre.
The revolver has a good bore and functions as it should in both single and double action.
The British Bull Dog was a popular type of solid-frame pocket revolver introduced by Philip Webley & Son of Birmingham, England in 1872 and subsequently copied by gun makers in Continental Europe and the United States. It featured a 2.5-inch (64 mm) barrel and was chambered for .44 Short Rimfire, .442 Webley, or .450 Adams cartridges, with a five-round cylinder. Webley produced smaller scaled .320 Revolver and .380 calibre versions later, but did not mark them with the British Bull Dog name.
The design of the British Bull Dog revolver had been in existence since 1868, but Henry Webley registered the trademark in 1878. From that time to the present, the term has come to mean any short barrelled double-action revolver with a swing-out ejector rod and a short grip.
Intended to be carried in a coat pocket as an affordable means of self-defence, it can be argued that the Bulldog was actually the gun that really “won the west” as it was produced in far more significant numbers than the more expensive USA manufactured revolvers.
The design originated in 1868 for the Webley Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) model revolver and was manufactured as late as 1917.
This is a decent revolver that would enhance any collection of British revolvers.