Webley Pellet Tins and Boxes

Webley Cardboard pellet boxes.

With thanks to Peter for these pics.

Troubledshooter's Webley pellet tins and boxes etc.

Ed's Webley pellet tins and boxes.

Pre war Webley green pellet boxes (including pre-1928 box) 

With thanks to John A for these pics of an extremely rare pre-1928 (the year Webley gave up its London premises) box, pellets, and the advertising slip inside.

This box was formerly in the Dr. Mark Newcomer and Jeff Hyder collections and has appeared on the front page of <i>Guns Review</i>.

(Note that the second pic is a composite showing all the box's sides.)

Thanks to Ginger for these pics of a later 'Birmingham only' box, which sold on Ebay for £271 in November 2015:

Webley No.2 cal pre-1928 pellet box

With thanks to Mark for these pics.

1940s Webley pellet box (orange label) 

With thanks to Paul.

Collection of Webley Pellet Tins 

With thanks to Zuke for these beautiful pics.

Anomalous orange .177 pellet tins 

With thanks to Brian.

Note that the pellet tin in this Webley Jaguar advertisement contains .177 pellets, so doesn't follow the orange = .22 pellets convention:

Webley pellet sample packs 

With thanks to David.

Less common Webley darts, pellets, tins 

With thanks to John M.

Webley Pellet Tins with vouchers (c.1970s) 

With thanks to Chris.

Webley pellets and darts (tins and boxes) 

With thanks to a fellow collector.

Webley .25 pellets (1930s, unopened box) 

Note that it says for Webley pistols (although there are none in .25 calibre) and 'rifle' (singular), presumably meaning the .25 Webley Service rifle.

Webley sample pellets (prewar, .22 cal) 

Webley sample pellet pack (1939, .177 cal)

With thanks to Vic.

Webley no.2 pellet box (orange) 

Webley box 100 pellets for export (1989) 

John Milewski wrote in Airgun World:

In 1989, small card boxes of 100 Webley Air Gun Pellets in .177 calibre were supplied in small numbers. Dennis Hiller offered two such boxes through his popular collectors’ mailing lists during 1989/90 and explained that the boxes were intended as samples for export. Unusually, the red boxes had a serrated tab on their left side, which could be pressed to open a small flap in order to dispense pellets, presumably one at a time...

These boxes of Webley pellets are very scarce today, and I only know of the two which Dennis advertised and another illustrated in Chris Thrale’s Webley Air Rifles book. The box illustrated was originally obtained from Dennis Hiller and it took me 25 years to prise it away from the collector who beat me to it in 1990.

Webley pellet box (rare, 1924) 

See also:

https://forum.vintageairgunsgallery.com/webley-literature-ephemera/pellet-tins-and-boxes/#post-169

With thanks to Phil C.

John Griffiths, author of the Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols, says:

John Atkins pictures one of these boxes in the June 2017 Airgunner.  The fact that it says 'For Webley Mark 1 Air Pistol' dates it to 1924, as in 1925 the lettering on the label was changed to include ' and Air Rifle'.  Incredibly rare, and extremely desirable to Webley aficionados.

Webley prewar pellet tins x4 (two sealed) 

David's Webley Pellet Tins and Boxes collection