Spring/Piston Queen Anne Air Rifle from the 1930s.

[Elexious Musick]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone! Have any of you ever heard of or seen a Queen Anne Air Rifle .177 from the 1930s?
It looks like a BSA from the same time period. I have the opportunity to buy one, but know nearly nothing about it. I can't read or understand the faded stamping on the receiver and breech. Any help about it, history, specs, etc. Would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[BanjomanMI76]

The only thing close I could find was the following link.

Air rifles of the 1930s - looking back through history - Airgun World

John Atkins explores the break-barrel and under-lever air rifles of the 1930s in this fascinating historical piece… credit: Archant Ninety-two years ago, the January 31st, 1929 issue of The Sporting Goods Review and The Gunmaker (TSGR) reported that BSA air rifles continued to be a very popular...

airgun-world.com

One difference was the stippling clearly had the BSA logo, and I noted the Chinese or Japanese Kanji characters instead of the Crown in your great looking acquisition (unless you didn't photograph that).

 

[Elexious Musick]

The only thing close I could find was the following link.

Air rifles of the 1930s - looking back through history - Airgun World

John Atkins explores the break-barrel and under-lever air rifles of the 1930s in this fascinating historical piece… credit: Archant Ninety-two years ago, the January 31st, 1929 issue of The Sporting Goods Review and The Gunmaker (TSGR) reported that BSA air rifles continued to be a very popular...

airgun-world.com

One difference was the stippling clearly had the BSA logo, and I noted the Chinese or Japanese Kanji characters instead of the Crown in your great looking acquisition (unless you didn't photograph that).

That's the same article I found when I started researching the Queen Anne. I don't see anything that identifies it as a BSA, but the resemblance is remarkable. Perhaps a rebranded BSA? I'm not sure about Japanese branding? The elephant on the stamping looks like something possibly from India? I agree the stamping on the breech looks vaguely Japanese? Anyone with 1st hand knowledge about this gun is probably long gone. I'm reconsidering buying it because I don't need another unusable airgun or wall hanger. Pity.