Original Nepalese Gurkha P-1888 .303 Lee-Metford Magazine Rifle - Serial Number २ - 2 British Flags Overall a really nice complete

Overall a really nice complete and fully researched grouping of a very hard to find 513th PIR paratrooper that participated in the two major Campaigns that the 513th participated in during World War Two

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for use of horseback and a lanyard ring to the butt

It was a descendant of the M-22 prototype and the KP/-26 production model

officer Pickelhaube share common features such as: the undersides of visors are lined

Original Nepalese Gurkha P-1888 .303 Lee-Metford Magazine Rifle - Serial Number २ - 2 British Flags Overall a really nice completeOriginal 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