BSA first model Alexander Henry carbine, 22inch barrel chambered in .450 long as apposed to 577/450 as the later examples are, fitted with folding ladder sights, and stamped Henry Edinburgh 1641, the receiver stamped BSA& Co. Henrys Patent 2069, also numbered 503 to the top, the stock stamped 23?1 and bears circular cartouch with 1869 date.

Section 58(2) antique / obsolete calibre, can be owned without a licence. Buyer must be over the age of 18, age verification ID will be required if the lot it to be posted out.

Illustrated in British Non Ordnance Military Carbines 1750-1900 by Barry Chisnall 2011. It is suggested by Jonathan Kirton (author of The British Falling Block Breechloading Rifle) that the action and buttstock were produced at the BSA factory in Birmingham before being sent up to Edinburgh where Alex Henry's shop fitted the barrels and applied numbers regular to Henry's numbering series. Captain Mayne at the Henry Military Rifle Co. in London is thought to have submitted these for consideration of the New South Wales forces and/or police and these carbines became the pattern for subsequent N.S.W. carbine orders.
This lot is accompanied by correspondence from Jonathan Kirton regarding the carbine.