Deactivated WWII British Military marked No2 MK5 1inch flare pistol

This is a WWII British Military marked No2 MK5 1inch flare pistol. Broad arrow stamped, it is marked with the makers code M601. This dispersal code was used in WW2 by I.L. Berridge & Co, who were a commercial knitting machine manufacturer. Berridge made over 200,000 examples of this particular flare pistol during the war. They were issued to the RAF, Navy and the Army. This example has a distinctive lug on the left side of the barrel. This design is most commonly associated with the RAF who used the lug to lock the pistol into the air crafts fuselage before firing.

Deactivated with a working action it can be cocked, stripped and dry fired.