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  • mrmike08075
    English production martini Henry made by farqueson arsenal in 1908

    Your gun ended it's life in deep dry storage in a special reserve gendarme district post warehouse

    Atalanta cutlery bought the entire outpost lock stock and bbl - including Gatling guns and organ guns and piles of kukris...

    Your gun does not however display and Gurkha marking or indications of being issued to the primary units in involved in the Sepoy rebellion...

    I think your piece was part of the TO&E for an engineer unit - on detached duty to accompany infantry - from a separate specialized unit within the greater command structure...

    I can of course get into the finer details and greater nuances specific to your gun - type and variant and rework / update status...

    I don't off the top of my head decipher Nepalese characters - but I did manage to obtain close to accurate translation of the markings on my Siamese Mauser.

    You can easily obtain some great value added attention garnishing data if you google the Atlanta cutlery - Nepalese armory...

    I happen to have done some research for them back in the day when they began bringing in samples prior to final cargo containers importation...

    Mike
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  • Sam06
    That is sweet!
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  • babun
    I want that gun!

    But I think it's going to go for more than my little stash of goof off money I have this month.
    :(
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  • Ricci Wright
    It?s pretty nice. I have two more older ones but this is the best one.
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  • mrmike08075
    Every time I pick one up - everytime I have a target in my sights and am taking up the slack on the trigger - with half a dozen .577-450 martini Henry cartridges within easy reach (Bertram brass with a kangaroo and "Coors shutzenfest" head stamped on the base...

    In my minds eye I am behind a turned over voortrekker caravanisari prairie schooner style wagon with my mates at Rourke's drift - my officer reciting Kipling as he dresses the line and prepares for the next human wave attack of Zulu warriors each with an assagai and a shield with a javelin or spear ready to be thrown as a ranged weapon prior to close combat in amongst the low walls and hasty obstacles - the Sargent at the ready with his .455 Webley in one hand - swagger stick in the other ready to crack US on the shoulder or across the back of the legs if we step out of line or if our kit is not in order...

    Mike
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  • TRAP55
    mrmike08075 wrote:
    English production martini Henry made by farqueson arsenal in 1908

    Your gun ended it's life in deep dry storage in a special reserve gendarme district post warehouse

    Atalanta cutlery bought the entire outpost lock stock and bbl - including Gatling guns and organ guns and piles of kukris...

    Your gun does not however display and Gurkha marking or indications of being issued to the primary units in involved in the Sepoy rebellion...

    I think your piece was part of the TO&E for an engineer unit - on detached duty to accompany infantry - from a separate specialized unit within the greater command structure...

    I can of course get into the finer details and greater nuances specific to your gun - type and variant and rework / update status...

    I don't off the top of my head decipher Nepalese characters - but I did manage to obtain close to accurate translation of the markings on my Siamese Mauser.

    You can easily obtain some great value added attention garnishing data if you google the Atlanta cutlery - Nepalese armory...

    I happen to have done some research for them back in the day when they began bringing in samples prior to final cargo containers importation...

    Mike
    Mike, I met Christian Cranmer at the Vegas Shotshow and spent over 2hrs talking with him on the arsenal discovery, and what they found. When they arrived, the Nepalese military was there melting down Napoleonic canons for the bronze, and using the carriages for firewood to do it! They thought he had gone nuts when he was getting them to stop, while trying to explain what they were worth.
    Those Martinis were stacked like cord wood 5ft high. Stacks of Civil War Springfields next to stacks of WWII German MG-34's. Lord only knows how it got there, but they had all the tooling from the Sharps Rifle Company too. The first load out filled two shipping containers, and he said there was so much there, that you couldn't tell they had removed anything.
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  • mrmike08075
    Christian had called the gunshop because we had a small add for custom ammo that listed amongst other cartridges the .577-450 martini Henry and the 14 gauge non standard ignition point gendarme shot shells...

    He had also found out that we hand made the blank smoke display charges used in the main gun turrets and secondary belt line sponson cannon for the Olympia in Philly and for their German U-boat's deck gun (a German 88)...

    And he apparently golfed with and was a member of the private country club with the Hollywood gent whom commissioned us to begin the .700 nitro express project - who was also a sub machine gun collector who we loaded 8mm nambu for / I serviced and cleaned up and did the spec sheet research on and live fire testing of his type 100 smg (we partnered with triple K to reproduce functional magazines for the type 100 - the rare originals had bad welds and the springs were not tempered right and often failed - broke apart)

    I remember him sending us pictures via email of a Bira gun and of light mountain field howitzers on special carriages that could be broken down and packed on a mule...

    I still have flints and bayonets and 2 piece copper base paper or foil upper .577-450 ammo with external lubrication - which led to me telling the tale of pig fat grease and the Sepoy rebellion...

    He would send my father catalogs and gift certificates in the mail and had a note placed on bus account to always provide hand select highest grade items when an order was placed...

    I just fell in love with the gendarme / constabulary 14 gauge pivoting block riot gun with trowel bayonet - it was mint condition and just so bizarre...

    Have not thought about that in decades...

    Mike
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  • babun
    DANG!!! I just knew it!!!

    It's now over by 8 bucks over my "limit". :(

    I hope you get twice the price it is now.
    :D
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