M-H Artillery Carbine vs Cavalry Carbine

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Willy Tincup

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I 'm hoping some of you guys.....or gals, can explain the differences between the Martini-Henry cavalry and artillery carbines. Which one is the more desireable / expensive. Any idea of value for 1 with virtually no blueing, some hammer marks on the action, solid wood with no splits or cracks but 10,000 dents and marks. Made by the Braendlin Armoury in Britain somewhere---has some funny writing / script on the steel butt plate. Bore is pretty good and appears to be in good mechanical / shootable condition. Barrel is 21 1/4" long, has the cleaning rod but no sling swivels. No bayonet lug. Thanks for any information.
 
Braendlin Armoury rifles were made for commercial sale to civilians, they are not military, so it's neither a cavalry or an artillery. I think I've seen this carbine, was it for sale in Ottawa several months ago here on CGN? The script on the butt plate could be farsi or maybe Indian / Nepalese, I don't think its arabic so that might be a clue to where this rifle has been. WOuld be nice to get it translated.
IMO collector value is not high, it's value is in how functional it is as a shooter.
 
To the best of my knowledge there were no Martini-Henry artillery or cavalry carbines. There were Martini-Enfield artillery carbines but those were 303. I think you may have what John suggests. Google "Braendlin Armoury", there's far more information than I would want to post here.
 
There were MH cav and art carbines made. The difference is in the fore end. the art carb has a bayonet lug and the cav carb does not.
 
There are sites in the US that list both types of carbines for sale. From the pics I couldn't tell much difference but Greens reply about the bayonet lugs is kinda what I was guessing. Thanks all. The learning continues...and thats great. wTc
 
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