RARE**MINT BORE**Victorian British BSA & Co First Model Alexander Henry Edinburgh Scotland New South Wales Australia Military /Police Contract .450 Obsolete Calibre Falling Block Breech Loading Carbine. Single Shot None Rifles

**RARE**MINT BORE**Victorian British BSA & Co First Model Alexander Henry Edinburgh Scotland New South Wales Australia Military /Police Contract .450 Obsolete Calibre Falling Block Breech Loading Carbine. Sn 19936 - 19936

This is a rare to find BSA first model Alexander Henry carbine, 22” barrel (39 ½” overall length) carbine chambered in .450 long as opposed to 577/450 as the later examples are, fitted with folding ladder sights, blade fore sight, steel butt plate and stamped Henry Edinburgh 1641. The receiver is stamped BSA & Co. Henrys Patent 2069, also numbered 503 to the top, the stock stamped 23?1 and bears circular cartouche with 1869 date. These carbines are Illustrated in British Non Ordnance Military Carbines 1750-1900 by Barry Chisnall 2011. It is suggested by Jonathan Kirton (author of The British Falling Block Breechloading Rifle) that the action and buttstock were produced at the BSA factory in Birmingham before being sent up to Edinburgh where Alex Henry's shop fitted the barrels and applied numbers regular to Henry's numbering series. Captain Mayne at the Henry Military Rifle Co. in London is thought to have submitted these for consideration of the New South Wales forces and/or police and these carbines became the pattern for subsequent N.S.W. carbine orders. The all original wood has just bumps and bruises to be expected with age. Its loading and firing mechanism works crisply. The metal work has even patina. The barrel’s bore is near mint clean and bright with crisp rifling. The price for this rare carbine includes UK delivery. NB. As an obsolete calibre weapon, no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 19936

£1,295.00