Is your rifle Turkish, Pakistan, British etc marked??
It's a carbine version and were some of the last to be released as surplus. They were made up from FTRed 577-450 rifles and rebarreled to 303 British, usually, but not always by the British. The original markings are often scrubbed off and new stamping added to represent the nation paying for the conversion.
Sometimes you see them with both original and later national marks.
Some nations, such as Afghanistan actually built their own Martini rifles, under British supervision of course.
If it's seen Middle East service, it may have been used for training/drill purposes as well. Some countries aren't very particular about stamping a big DP or such on the receivers.
The last ones I purchased, back in the mid eighties, from International Firearms out of Montreal, were mostly in Drill Purpose condition.
The front sights were worn from scabbards and the rear sights were often broken or bent. There were a few jewels in the mix though.
You just had to buy enough of them, to be allowed to pick through the pallets they were stacked on.
I bought 300 of them, under contract to Alan Lever of Lever Arms and was allowed to pick through them for the rifles with decent bores, not to badly dented and with intact sights. I managed to find 40, that looked like they'd never been issued.
We also bought another 300 that were still chambered in 577-450, in VG condition. These rifles were welded together at the receivers and to a ring around the bayo lugs, to be turned into lamps. All of them went to the US markets.
