Original British P-1871 Martini-Henry MkII Short Lever Rifle with 1870s Date - Cleaned and Complete Beretta 5-Inch Mountain Gun” in his

5-Inch Mountain Gun” in his famous poem “Screw Guns”

No export out side USA

over 70 years old

Some have original labels reading: CONTRACTS: NXss26131 - 23615 - 16463 - 22036

Original British P-1871 Martini-Henry MkII Short Lever Rifle with 1870s Date - Cleaned and Complete Beretta 5-Inch Mountain Gun” in hisOriginal Items. Very Few Available. Dates and Manufacturers Vary. Few military rifles are as closely associated with the height of the Victorian British Empire as the Martini Henry. Adopted during the 1870s, it armed British troops through some of the most famous colonial campaigns of the era and became forever linked with the Anglo Zulu War of 1879. The MkII Short Lever rifle is the pattern carried during the desperate fighting at Isandlwana and the