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04 March 2007

So I'm watching The Maltese Falcon And Sam Spade calls what is plainly a revolver an automatic.[More:]A little googling (and the magic of DVRs) reveals that Webley-Fosbery made an automatic revolver. And not only was such a thing made the gun in the movie is an actual Webley-Fosbery Self-Cocking Automatic Revolver easily recogonisable by the grooves in the cylinder just as Sam says it is. Pretty amazing for a piece of kit that they made less than 5000 copies. However he calls it a 45 caliber 8 shot and wiki says only the .38 had eight shots, the .455 only had six.

Who says you can't learn anything watching TV?
Never doubt the Spadester.
posted by mischief 04 March | 22:15
TV! Is there anything it can't do?
posted by arse_hat 04 March | 22:25
Ha! How odd!! I work in a restaurant made world renown by Dashiell Hammett and the novel/movie. And, as a matter of fact, there's a bit of a recent stir due to a missing piece/s of historical [if trivial] value...though I doubt a revolver or an automatic was used in the less than legal acquisition of said article/s. As weird as it feels to have been robbed, it's been a true source of intrigue and genuine speculation as life imitates art.

Where's Sam "the stuff that dreams are made of" Spade when you need him?
posted by Frisbee Girl 05 March | 02:34
So Fris were you questioned in the disappearance of the Falcon?
posted by arse_hat 05 March | 03:12
At length, yes...as I was one of a number of people there when it was seen last and when it was discovered missing. I even snickered about CSI:SF after the third camera crew made its way filming through the restaurant only to turn around in time to come face to face with a guy from the forensics department on his way upstairs to dust for prints. [!!!]

It was pretty exciting for a couple of weeks, but I think we'd all just prefer to have da boid and da books back now, thankyouverymuch.
posted by Frisbee Girl 05 March | 03:25
lol self-cocking

(good post!)
posted by Eideteker 05 March | 07:01
Meet Lucy! || Interesting free RPG game

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