Original Nepalese Gurkha P-1888 .303 Lee Metford Magazine Rifle - Serial Number 6 Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns In place of which is

In place of which is fitted with a much wider trough without any throat mount but with two substantial “covered wagon” style retaining tubes for what is held in the ramrod’s place

This sword is equipped with solid nickel hilt mounts which are still in good condition

Mechanics very strong and crisp

There beyond the lock and breech block there is no definitive way of telling which parts were made in England and which were made in Nepal

Eventually the batch of experimental sabres was abolished and sold to England

Original Nepalese Gurkha P-1888 .303 Lee Metford Magazine Rifle - Serial Number 6 Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns In place of which isOriginal Item: Only One Available. Included in the government of Nepal antique weapons purchase of 2003 were a couple of thousand Enfield bolt action rifles mostly of the WW1 style SMLE type. Within those were a very few original British made P 1888 Lee Metford Mk1* rifles and, much to everyone's surprise, there were also a few Nepalese manufactured Lee Metford rifles. By tradition the King's personal guard was required to be armed with firearms