A little help with markings on a Webley Mk VI

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I recently helped a shooting buddy of mine recover a Webley Mk VI revolver from the RCMP after it was turned in by an aunt.

My friend's not sure what the final disposition will be but that's another issue.

I handled the revolver and it's it quite good shape considering its age but there are a pile of proof and other marks all over this thing. Serial numbers all match and the finish is again quite good.

Can anyone help identify/explain the mark highlighted in the photo below?

There's lots of arrow head marks (on almost every single piece of metal that I can see) plus others but I've not seen the crossed bars or arrowhead to arrow head mark in the photo before.

Thanks for any help or pointers where to look online.

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I do not know if it was applied to revolvers, but on a rifle, the head to head arrows would be the sign that it was "Sold out of Service" - no longer owned by the Crown... I think.

On looking at your picture again - not sure I have seen a picture so clear - almost looks like a flat punch was rotated to create the shape - punch struck three times - I do not think that was actually end-to-end broad arrow punch marks. Maybe does not make a difference??

From somewhere, I got the idea that a Broad Arrow mark signified Crown ownership, and that a second Broad Arrow mark - nose-to-nose - cancelled that "ownership" mark. On your picture - as if struck out where no mark had been before??
 
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JP is correct. Double broad arrow nose touching is sold out of service or sold out of the regular U.K. military directly. No longer Brit
ownership. Some items were shipped directly from the factory as an approved purchase so no double broad arrow mark as it never entered
Brit military service. Case in point - Canada received 2300 Lee Enfield .303 magazine carbines in 1896 directly from Enfield and have no
double broad arrow stamp. But a later shipment of the same carbine 1898 (estimated) of an unknown number has the double arrow. Usually
the double arrow stamp indicates that an inspection of serviceability was performed by the British military as technically it was a 'used' weapon. JOHN
 
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