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Lincoln Jeffries Air Rifle Serial Numbers
The first experimental Lincoln Jefferies made, Lincoln Air rifles had a H serial no. Prefix from 1 to 129. Made from 1901 to 1904 The very first Bsa made batch of Lincoln Jeffries were serial no. Made mid 1905 The very first Bsa Air Rifles (Lincoln Jeffries Patent) were serial no. 1130 to 2129. The serial number is 12869. Any help would be much appreciated. Location leeds/west yorkshire Posts 625. 1905 the first lincoln jeffries air rifle was made, 1907 the 10,000th was. 100 year old Bsa Lincoln Jefferies air rifle Old Bsa Lincoln Jeffries air rifle, Improved Model D. 100 year old Bsa Lincoln Jefferies air rifle. Pre-1918 BSA & Lincoln Jeffries air rifles There follows an abridged list of serial numbers of pre-WW1 BSA and Lincoln Jeffries rifles, based on the comprehensive list in John Knibb's book BSA and Lincoln Jeffries Air Rifles: A Concise Illustrated History of Their Development and Manufacture, 1904-18.
Pre-1918 BSA & Lincoln Jeffries air rifles There follows an abridged list of serial numbers of pre-WW1 BSA and Lincoln Jeffries rifles, based on the comprehensive list in John Knibb's book BSA and Lincoln Jeffries Air Rifles: A Concise Illustrated History of Their Development and Manufacture, 1904-18. Mr Knibbs drew up his list from entries in the original factory ledgers. This list will be of assistance in narrowing down the age of your rifle. For a much more detailed record of your rifle's manufacture and despatch from the factory, please refer to the above book. Vintage BSAs 1919-1939 John Knibbs, who owns the BSA factory ledgers, didn't include a list of serial numbers for the post-1919 BSA air rifles in his book The Golden Century (copyright John Knibbs 2002). The reason was that the serial numbers were not issued in chronological order, so the following information SHOULD BE TREATED WITH CAUTION!!! Two sources of date identification have been published, apparently before the uncertainty mentioned above was understood, by Dennis Hiller in his book Air Rifles and by P J Colman in his articles in Guns Review.
The Hiller ones take the format 'Model, Maker, Date'): Light patterns 'L' and 'A' Club ('CS' and 'C') and Standard.22 cal ('S' and 'T' patterns) Breakdown pattern.
Davy, thanks for the welcome. Its spring airgun that I believe to be a.177, its not seized at all but the stock is a bit wobbly. Daughter has confiscated my phone for her own use but I found a pretty close image of it This one has the serial No 4473 so guesstimating around the year 1919. There is a bit of corrosion around the end of the barrel by the sight. It would be great if you could take a look at it, I could come to your meet up one weekend when I'm not out racing with the terriers.
Where would my local gunsmith be, I'm in Chippenham Many thanks, Nicola. Davy, thanks for the welcome. Its spring airgun that I believe to be a.177, its not seized at all but the stock is a bit wobbly. Daughter has confiscated my phone for her own use but I found a pretty close image of it This one has the serial No 4473 so guesstimating around the year 1919. There is a bit of corrosion around the end of the barrel by the sight.
Lincoln Jeffries Air Rifle Serial Numbers
It would be great if you could take a look at it, I could come to your meet up one weekend when I'm not out racing with the terriers. Where would my local gunsmith be, I'm in Chippenham Many thanks, Nicola hi Nicola have a look at the stock screws and give them a tighten be careful though as you dont want to slip,and scratch this beauty! The corrosion,may move with some tin foil and gun oil lightly rubbed.is it pitted rust? So its a BSA are there any letters before the serial number?
Bsa Air Rifle Serial Numbers
I am pretty sure its a model D BSA which was the follow on from the Lincoln Jeffries patented rifle, Those guns were about from Pre War One!! In fact most if not all bell target teams shot those rifles in the 1920,s onward. It is of course a underlever and the loading was done via the rotating tap, Ala the later Airsporters.To check the airtightness of the loading tap Cock the rifle open the tap then STILL HOLDING the underlever pull the trigger and return the underlever to the barrel, if the tap is sound it will take a few seconds bafore the underlever locks up. If the tap is worn and leaks all is not lost, its a easy job to remove the tap and have it zinc or copper plated to restore it to leak free opperation. Can tago mago blogspot software.