British Martini-Henry Mk I Striker, LSA Manufacture MP 44 original magazine housing assembly

original magazine housing assembly

The knapsack (lower bag) had two straps to close its main flap and side straps to hold the lower arms of the horseshoe blanket roll (if rolled the long way)

IMA carries much of the equipment and weapons seen in this film: not the film's props but the actual equipment used by the soldiers depicted in the film

The cross sectional shape of the 1876 was made equiangular

British Martini-Henry Mk I Striker, LSA Manufacture MP 44 original magazine housing assemblyOriginal Item: The first striker issued with the early Martini Henry rifles was the Mk I. It immediately turned out to be too fragile, and before the initial field testing of the Martini was done, the Mk I was replaced with a strengthened version, the Mk II. The Mk I was in use for such a very short time that it may be the rarest Martini component part. IMA has found a very, very few original British Mk I strikers among the Mk II and Mk III Martini