Thank you. Can't tell you how challenging it is to find pictures of Tasmanian marked Martinis. That's beautiful find, and really appreciate your posting the pics.
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Thank you. Can't tell you how challenging it is to find pictures of Tasmanian marked Martinis. That's beautiful find, and really appreciate your posting the pics.
Yes they did - Roumanian Contract and commercial
Given the distributed nature of the Nepal Francotte component manufacturing process then centralized fitting and assembly, a number of differing "features" have been detected among them after careful...
Greetings everyone. I'm researching material for an upcoming book dealing with the Kabul Rifle Factory, arms production, and Martini Identification. Over the years I've come across references to...
Richard - thanks for posting - those are some awesome stamps and marks you have there!
Everyone else - thanks for sharing your knowledge. It's always a great learning experience.
Vern
The Enfield-Martini, manufactured in two patterns in the .402 caliber in the 1880's, were converted to the Martini-Henry Mark IV (.577-450 caliber) Pattern A & B. The M-H Mark IV Type A and B as we...
Check this link for a discussion and address of the company. There are several other FRC threads on this board as well. I believe this 1897 version was a contract filler for one of the Middle East...
It is/was a Kabul Arsenal Type 4 with the Mosque on the right side of the receiver produced between 1897 and 1908. If you can get a good serial number from somewhere on it (fore arm barrel channel,...
My Canadian Cache Mark I has the filled hole as well......
Given their rarity and desirability among collectors, they show up infrequently at major auctions (one way to index relative "value"). Because of this rarity it is very hard to establish a steady...
Anzac15 - confirming that yes - there are two spellings of Muscat/Muscate on these Belgian made guns. Beyond that, I don't have an explanation why except all I've seen referenced over the years come...
Highly recommend you query the keyword on britishmilitaria.com, gunboards.com, and the internet before you buy in. There are a lot of comments out there that will answer the question you raise.