PHOTO: The rifle shown above is a Japanese marked, ostensibly British built, Albini-Braendlin 5-groove short pattern rifle. Upon conversion to Albini-Braendlins these rifles were chambered for the. Some rifles are proofed with Birmingham proof marks which would indicate that the underlying 25 bore percussion rifle was not a Japanese manufactured copy, but this doesn't tell us who undertook the conversion. 577, usually indicated by the bore size of "25" stamped on the left side of the barrel. Conversions were going on in all three places during the time of these rifles.Ĭaliber is. It isn't known whether these rifles were British conversions or were converted by the Japanese using British and/or Europeon parts. This suggests that the rifles pictured here fall squarely within the Hunnycutt and Anthony descriptions. Note that the serial numbers of the rifles represented on these pages include: 1367, 1399, 15857 (which is the serial number of the receiver and breech block, that is, of the conversion, not necessarily the serial number of the rifle itself, a different number of which appears with two numerals (_ 84) visible but is likely three or four, and _. " and indicate that the highest serial number reported is 1368. They add that "Both Tower and Enfield rifles of this period were converted to the Braendlin-Albini (sic)system. Additional charecters on the Hunnycutt and Anthony breechblock and tang indicate modification and issuance of the rifle to the Japanese Army. Markings on that example include an Imperial Chrysanthemum (see example in photos of: A second Japanese Albini Rifle below and Kanji indicating inventory of the Hunnycutt and Anthony pictured rifle in 1871, which is about correct for the rifles illustrated here also. They also offer a photograph of an Albini-Braendlin conversion of an "1865 Tower" (c.f., photos below for similar). (See the link below to a similar and representative example identified as a P1860 percussion short pattern). GENERALLY: Hunnycutt and Anthony, in Military Rifles of Japan, Fifth Edition, write that the Japanese copied the British P1855 percussion musket in.
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