Inglis Mk I
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Early production (1T) in what looks like very nice condition.
With the holster and extra mag, I would say (listed here on CGN) it would easily sell for $750 - $850, maybe more to someone who really wants it.
Can you post a pic of the left side showing the safety?
With the holster and extra mag, I would say (listed here on CGN) it would easily sell for $750 - $850, maybe more to someone who really wants it.
Can you post a pic of the left side showing the safety?
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yours looks like it is missing somthing 
sorry crappy pic
sorry crappy pic
The story behind this gun:
It was supposevly the only gun ever stolen from Inglis. It was repatriated to the factory. The previous owner had it for some 40 years.
Henry
Buy the gun, not the story
There was a lanyard ring in the EE a few days back, you should snag it if you can.
ETA: here it is http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=322092
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I've seen, held ,owned many Inglis hi-power "lunch bucket specials" there are quite a few around.in fact the old story goes that kids in the area of Inglis played cowboys and indians (cattle persons and natives must be PC ) with hi-powers .now that is probably an urban legend but you never know.lets not forget that once WW2 was over all production machinery and any parts left over went to C.A.L. as did most of the skilled labour and Inglis started to make house hold appliances and the like . It's very interesting to me that Inglis is one of if not the only factory at least in Canada that started bussiness produceing arms and when peace came started making comercial products not the other way round .the original Inglis product I beleave was boilers and the like but the factory had been closed for many years before Major Hahn(sp) started making arms there starting with a contract for brens for the british IIRC
I found an article by PR Stempel and the Inglis FN Browning. In it, he mentions the pure coincidence of a Chinese delagation visiting the John Inglis plant. Inglis at the time was building Bren guns for the British and Canadian armies. The Chinese presented a list which included a request for 180,00 Browning Hi Power!!! The Canadian army was in short supply of .380 Enfield revolvers, at the same time.The Canadian Government received a license from the Belgian Gorvernment to manufacture 250,000 Hi Power, November 1943. The license was to expire at the end of the war.
The first Chinese prototype was completed in January 1944 and production started in February. Inglis ws a boiler and heavy machinery company! My gun does not have the Inglis Diamond logo of late and post war production. It is a 1T serial number indicating the first production run. The serial numbers started with 0T to 10T9999
The value according to Stempel for one such as this, was $1000 USD in 2001.
Henry
The first Chinese prototype was completed in January 1944 and production started in February. Inglis ws a boiler and heavy machinery company! My gun does not have the Inglis Diamond logo of late and post war production. It is a 1T serial number indicating the first production run. The serial numbers started with 0T to 10T9999
The value according to Stempel for one such as this, was $1000 USD in 2001.
Henry
My gun does not have the Inglis Diamond logo of late and post war production. It is a 1T serial number indicating the first production run. The serial numbers started with 0T to 10T9999
The value according to Stempel for one such as this, was $1000 USD in 2001.
Henry
Yes, your gun is an early "T" series.
The chinese guns were tangent sighted and marked with a "CH"
The value of an original CH Inglis exceeds the T guns.
I guess that all depends on the buyer. Personally, I got rid of a very good CH series with a stock, so I could afford a basically unfired T series.
Different strokes for different folks.
Very short supply, I'd say ....
Canada never adopted the .380 Enfield revolver for military issue (although the RCAF acquired some.) Our primary military issue handgun, starting in 1939, was the Smith & Wesson Military & Police model revolver, chambered in .38S&W (the .380 service revolver cartridge being a British military version of the .38S&W.) According to Clive Law's "Canadian Military Handguns, 1855-1985", Canada acquired in excess of 118,000 S&W .38 cal. revolvers before officially adopting the Inglis No. 2 (i.e. T-serialed) pistol in 1944.
....and I am finding it much more difficult to find a nice all matching, original finish CH pistol.
IMO, there seems to be plenty of decaled Inglis around for those willing to pay the price - I have passed on several in the last year or two.
After a few scotchs, I have decided to put it up for sale. It will be on the EE tonight. I have to reduce the number of toys in the two safes! I also decided to do some chuck hunting with a Swiss or something similar.
Rehards,
Henry
Rehards,
Henry
Maybe I'm thinking of a different handgun, but I thought the markings were put on AFTER the finish, which means that IF this had the orgianl finish the letters should be in the white. Can someone confirm this.
Opps I just read an other thread which indicated that only the S/n was engraved after the finish and from the photo it appears that the s/n may be in the white so this could be the original finish.
Opps I just read an other thread which indicated that only the S/n was engraved after the finish and from the photo it appears that the s/n may be in the white so this could be the original finish.
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Canuck: I certainly understand the preference for original-finish pistols, but a refinish at some point seems to be very much the norm, as you likely know - especially on the CH-numbered No. 1 pistols. And of course, both Canada and the UK had post-war programs to convert all No. 1 pistols remaining in their service inventory to No. 2 specs, by machining off the rear sight base, and installing a No. 2-type fixed rear sight in its place .....
For my No. 1 pistol, I settled for a refinished one because it has its own unique history which adds to its appeal to me ..... It was one of the early-production No. 1 pistols which got diverted into Canadian Service when the Chinese contract was 'canceled' - and it accordingly received an additional C/Broadarrow stamp on the left side of the slide at the rear, which is unusual. It was then one of the 1,578 No. 1 pistols given as post-war aid to Belgium in 1950 (documented by Clive Law in Inglis Diamond, in Chapter 14: "Coals to Newcastle.) It appears to have been refinished, but not marked in any way, while in Belgian service, and came with two non-Inglis mags, each stamped on the body and floorplate with the pistol's serial number, in accordance with Belgian practice .... Somehow it ended up back in Canada, and I manged to acquire it ....
(Regrettably, the shoulder stock/holster is but a reproduction ....)
Yes, it was only the serial numbers which were applied after the slide and frame had been parkerized .... so the finish on hnachaj's pistol is original ......
