Item Description
Original Item: One-of-a-kind. Before Great Britain formerly adopted the Martini Henry 1871 system the Birmingham Company of Westley Richards developed a Martini falling block rifle.
This example was found in our Nepalese cache purchase of 2003. The very unusual design has been credited with being the template Nepal used to develop their GAHENDRA Martini Rifle during the 1880s. This rifle could have even been the very rifle used to develop the Gahendra design but there is no way for us to know that with any certainty.
Condition is worn and well used. It is fitted with a 27-inch sporting .450/577 caliber barrel bearing a back sight with folding leaves, two of which are now missing. The sporting rifle was made half stocked and virtually no visible markings remain, the action is operational but loose. A very rare design seldom encountered.
- 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.
These antique guns are not sold in live condition. They are sold as collector’s items or as wall hangers. Any attempt at restoring an antique gun to be operational is strongly discouraged and is done so at the risk of the customer. By purchasing an antique gun from IMA you thereby release IMA, its employees and corporate officers from any and all liability associated with use of our Antique guns.
Pre-1899 Manufacture, no licenses required, allowed to ship to almost any deliverable address across the globe.
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