Original Nepalese Gahendra .577/.450 Martini Improved Model Rifle from Private Collection MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets The actual cap issued by

The actual cap issued by the army has a tapered top (this one)- the front and rear are lower than the center

All you need a little cherry red paint and the naked eye won’t be able to tell the difference

These are marked with the wartime secret manufacturers

The maker is probably Jewell

Original Nepalese Gahendra .577/.450 Martini Improved Model Rifle from Private Collection MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets The actual cap issued byOriginal Item: One of a kind. This comes to us from the Estate of an extremely enthusiastic Collector, who dived in at the onset after our importation from Nepal in 2003. He selected the very best and kept them carefully cleaned and stored in his collection since then until now. This particular Late Model known as the IMPROVED GEHENDRA was last made in the mid 1890s, when Great Britain started supplying Short Lever Mark 2 Martini Rifles in 1894. This