Original Nepalese Gahendra .577/.450 Martini Improved Model Rifle with Side Script Manufacture Type_New Made Items and several fine Boutet pieces

and several fine Boutet pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The King_s own Borderers

Action: Side Action Percussion

All steel with markings (markings vary)

Original Nepalese Gahendra .577/.450 Martini Improved Model Rifle with Side Script Manufacture Type_New Made Items and several fine Boutet piecesOriginal Item: One of a kind. This particular Late Model of Nepalese Gahendra Martini Rifle is known as the IMPROVED MODEL with SIDE SCRIPT. These were last made in the mid 1890s, when Great Britain started supplying Short Lever Mark 2 Martini Rifles in 1894. This was followed by Long Lever Mark 4 Martini Henry Rifle in 1904 and 1908. There were very few "Improved " Gahendra rifles made and they have always commanded an absolute premium, especially