Help: Bringing Antique Status Martini Henry from UK to Canada

[tacfoley]

Do you know if any export paperwork is needed to take the antique out of UK?

It's about the same antique status as a 19thC p*ss pot. An unuseable antique firearm here in UK that anybody over the age of 18 can walk in, buy, walk out with it.

How you get it into Canada is the thing. I live in England, and bought a Snider from a poster here. All he needed to send it was a letter from the Mounties confirming its antique status - not difficult in view of the date 1862 on the lockplate.

Just re-read your #20 post above - seems pretty clear to me. Lucky for us we tend not to have snarky customs crew when we enter Canada, except for the one guy in Vancouver who had never seen an HO unpainted brass model locomotive before. I'd bought it in Portland OR. He took it away to test it to make sure I wasn't smuggling gold. I got a real stinky eye when he came back, telling me that it 'seemed to be made of cheap brass'.

Yeah, US$1500, 'cheap'. Huh.

 

[Thomservo]

Late update: Originally last September, I had my flight leaving out of Ireland -- they define antique firearms differently, and do not include the Martini Henry. So I had to leave it behind with a family member.

However, recently my dad went back and managed to bring it from the UK to Canada.

The only hick up was he had a soft case, as the airlines require a hard lockable case, some last minute scrambling on his side, he found a new suitable case and fixed that.

So with the documentation we had, the proof house letter and the FRT -- the rifle was allowed into Canada no problem.
So it is possible, seems you can take an antique rifle back from the uk (providing its defined as antique and valued under 35,000 pounds), like the Martini Henry, no issue : providing the airline allows firearms. In our case, no other export papers were required before reaching airport.

Hopefully this info helps someone else like me who was bewildered at what was needed to bring an antique rifle from UK to Canada.

 

[EthanisAwsome]

Thanks for the report I have only won auctions remotely and had a international shipper send them with a load for a Canadian business or direct depending on my location, good to know for future adventures.