Original Nepalese Gurkha P-1888 .303 Lee Metford Magazine Rifle - Serial Number 6 British Militaria 1939 (Heft 8)

1939 (Heft 8)

4” (+/- 0

This is an outstanding example of the very scarce U

three years after the Navy's Royal Naval Air Service

The MG15 was developed from the MG 30 which was designed by Rheinmetall using the locking system invented by Louis Stange in the mid to late 1920s

Original Nepalese Gurkha P-1888 .303 Lee Metford Magazine Rifle - Serial Number 6 British Militaria 1939 (Heft 8)Original 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