Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is one of the very few .303 caliber Martini Enfield rifles fount in the Royal Palace of Nepal.
Featuring a full sized action with the short martini lever system. The rifle has the original short 24" barrel with sporting front sight and a triple position folding back sight. The breech of the barrel bears the " Birmingham Small Arms Company " logo of three stacked rifles and the barrel bears genuine British proof marks.
The gun is half stocked and the wood butt bears the British stamping of 1895 on one side and various Nepali stamps on the reverse. Original sling mounting rings permanently attached to underside of the barrel and screwed into the butt stock.
A nice compact Martini sporting rifle, no doubt intended for use in an Elephant's Howdah, the small basket style seating compartment borne on the animals back used in big game, principally tiger hunts. Offered in fully cleaned and complete condition.
- This product is available for international shipping.
- IMA considers all of our antique guns as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns made prior to 1899. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering because they are not legally considered firearms. No FFL, C&R or any license is required to posses, transport, sell or trade Antique guns. All rifles and muskets sold by IMA that were manufactured prior to 1899 are considered Antiques by the US BATF (United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms). Therefore, all of IMA's Antique guns may be shipped to all US States and most nations around the world.
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Pre-1899 Manufacture, no licenses required, allowed to ship to almost any deliverable address across the globe.
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