Lot 15
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A Z.A.R. CONTRACT .577/.450 MARTINI-HENRY SERVICE RIFLE BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 18349, the receiver inscribed 'Made Specially For Z.A.R.', with combined tangent and leaf-sight, bayonet-lug and cleaning-rod, the breech dated 1897

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A Z.A.R. CONTRACT .577/.450 MARTINI-HENRY SERVICE RIFLE BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 18349, the receiver inscribed 'Made Specially For Z.A.R.', with combined tangent and leaf-sight, bayonet-lug and cleaning-rod, the breech dated 1897
33¼in. barrel, Black Powder proof
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When this rifle was supplied, the South African Republic (Z.A.R.) comprized only the Transvaal. The Republic and the Orange Free State joined against the British in the Second Boer War (October 1899 to June 1902)
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