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Macabre of Auchterloonie

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Jul 12, 2011, 3:23:42 PM7/12/11
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Anyone know the material(s) and colour(s) of .577/450 artillery carbine
(circa 1892) and .577/.450 infantry rifle (1876)

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Jonathan Spencer

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Jul 14, 2011, 1:55:36 PM7/14/11
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In message <ivi6ru$brg$1...@dont-email.me>, Macabre of Auchterloonie
<nico...@foobar.hellsuncles.co.uk> writes

>Anyone know the material(s) and colour(s) of .577/450 artillery carbine
>(circa 1892) and .577/.450 infantry rifle (1876)

By August 1891, the .450 Martini-Henry Mk II rifles was approved for
conversion to the .303 Martini-Henry Artillery Carbine Mk II. From
September 1891, a further conversion was approved resulting in the .303
Martini-Henry Artillery Carbine Mk III, but few were made. They would
have been made from wood and blued steel. Source ISBN 1-880677-12-1.

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Macabre of Auchterloonie

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Jul 21, 2011, 4:09:30 AM7/21/11
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Jonathan Spencer wrote:
> In message <ivi6ru$brg$1...@dont-email.me>, Macabre of Auchterloonie
> <nico...@foobar.hellsuncles.co.uk> writes
>
>> Anyone know the material(s) and colour(s) of .577/450 artillery
>> carbine (circa 1892) and .577/.450 infantry rifle (1876)
>
> By August 1891, the .450 Martini-Henry Mk II rifles was approved for
> conversion to the .303 Martini-Henry Artillery Carbine Mk II. From
> September 1891, a further conversion was approved resulting in the .303
> Martini-Henry Artillery Carbine Mk III, but few were made. They would
> have been made from wood and blued steel. Source ISBN 1-880677-12-1.

Thanks for the reply - on re-reading my post I missed out the salient
point... it's the pattern of the slings I'm after.

Senior moment?

I have the rifle and the artillery carbine: the latter has no sling and
the former has a crudely-made one which resembles thick white leather.

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Old Nick

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