This example retains most of the blued finish see the piccies.
The barrel has a removeable tube insert to load the pellet into, and its cocked break-barrel style with two sprung wire latches that keep the action in place.Ĭondition good. It has a wooden stock and blued tinplate action.
Rifle A: this is a nice tidy example of the Model 1. Quite a few were marked with an independent retailers name or trademark. The Diana Model 1 came out in the 1920’s and was in production until 1945, and then again in 1952. There are two Model 15's on a seperate post as I was exceeding the 10000 character limit trying to get them all on the same thread. It seems reasonable to assume that the rare version was a short lived transitional model that appeared between the other two, but there is no firm evidence for this.Īnother like it but apparently marked 'Original' (according to the Durrants auction blurb).I have pretty much the full suite of Dianas with numerous variations of the models, so am releasing a few back into the community as part of my ‘pruning’ exercise. The lack of ridges is not easy to spot from a typical face-on photo unless you are specifically looking for them. The third rarely seen version is characterised by having chequering on both grip faces and smooth grip edges, and is usually darker in colour than the other two versions. The earlier one has a completely smooth grip, whereas the later one has pressed chequering on both sides, and machined ridges round the the grip edges. He added on a BBS post: "T here are two common wood grip versions of the Diana 2 (or Original 2). I assume that any intended for the UK market would have been marked "Original", but those I know of all have the Diana name. I have only come across a handful of these guns - and only one in the UK and the rest in Germany, which suggests that few were imported here. As the former is marked "Made in West Germany" and the latter "Made in Germany" it is reasonable to assume that the walnut grip version came first after the war, before German reunification. This is characterised by a dark walnut chequered grip with NO ridges around the edge, unlike the relatively common post-war gun with a light (beech?) wood grip that has both chequering and ridges. Looking at the Diana pistols section, there is another variant of the Model 2 that could be added -one that I only found out about fairly recently.
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