Please do not dismiss out of hand a gun as a fake just because it dose not reach the "high standards" that you might expect .
Many gunmakers made/supplied guns to trading companies that were functional and robust for use in far off and wild places . They may have no resemblance to the stylish guns we know them to have made . I have seen guns by Wilkes that were as plain as any cheap gun turned out in Birmingham almost certainly made to be shipped out abroad . Webley made guns for the Forestry Commission, a government body set up after WW1 to oversee planting and production of timber in the UK ,these were plainly finished the most basic wood etc built to a contract price as were Webley revolvers in what was referred to as "War Finish" no external polishing apart from clothing off where necessary .
Yes there are fakes and high jacked names but nnot all are.
