Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Co. is pleased to present this collectible rolling-block single-shot rifle today for a penny-start auction, this is the Kjøbenhavns Toihuss (Copenhagen Arsenal) M/1867/96!
SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Kjøbenhavns Toihuus (Copenhagen Arsenal)
Model: M/1867/96
Serial: 43531
Date of Manufacture: 1873
Caliber: 11.7x51R
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 35"
Optics/Sights: Blade Front with Flip-Up Adjustable Ladder Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Walnut
Action: Rolling-Block / Single-Shot
Markings: Standard / The left receiver flat is stamped with a Crown over the Royal Cypher, above the mark M-1867. The right receiver upper tang is stamped “KJØBENHAVNS TOIHUUS 1873”, which indicates the Copenhagen Arsenal. The left side of the barrel is stamped with the serial number "47520". The same serial number is stamped into the rear stock, located between the trigger guard and the rear swivel. The rifle bears the Danish Crown stamp on the barrel, barrel bands, rear and front stock, and other components.
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Denmark is a small country (slightly smaller than the US states of Vermont and New Hampshire combined) situated on the Jutland peninsula, in Northern Europe, with the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east. It is surrounded by water except for its 42-mile southern boundary with Germany, and includes some 500 nearby islands, of which only 100 or so are inhabited. It was the Danish Vikings, not the Norwegians, who between 800 and 1000 A.D conquered much of England. Although Denmark acquired substantial territorial possessions throughout its history, including the union with Norway and Sweden under Danish rule in the late 1300s, Denmark was forced to cede Norway to an independent Sweden at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and with that loss, most of its empire was lost. In the 1830s and 1840s, the desire for a liberal constitution spread throughout the population of Denmark, as well as its Schleswig-Holstein dependencies (Schleswig was a Danish dependency and Holstein a German dependency, both of which were ruled by Denmark). Open revolt broke out in 1848 in Holstein and southern Schleswig.
Model: M/1867/96
Serial: 43531
Date of Manufacture: 1873
Caliber: 11.7x51R
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 35"
Optics/Sights: Blade Front with Flip-Up Adjustable Ladder Rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth Walnut
Action: Rolling-Block / Single-Shot
Markings: Standard / The left receiver flat is stamped with a Crown over the Royal Cypher, above the mark M-1867. The right receiver upper tang is stamped “KJØBENHAVNS TOIHUUS 1873”, which indicates the Copenhagen Arsenal. The left side of the barrel is stamped with the serial number "47520". The same serial number is stamped into the rear stock, located between the trigger guard and the rear swivel. The rifle bears the Danish Crown stamp on the barrel, barrel bands, rear and front stock, and other components.
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Denmark is a small country (slightly smaller than the US states of Vermont and New Hampshire combined) situated on the Jutland peninsula, in Northern Europe, with the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east. It is surrounded by water except for its 42-mile southern boundary with Germany, and includes some 500 nearby islands, of which only 100 or so are inhabited. It was the Danish Vikings, not the Norwegians, who between 800 and 1000 A.D conquered much of England. Although Denmark acquired substantial territorial possessions throughout its history, including the union with Norway and Sweden under Danish rule in the late 1300s, Denmark was forced to cede Norway to an independent Sweden at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and with that loss, most of its empire was lost. In the 1830s and 1840s, the desire for a liberal constitution spread throughout the population of Denmark, as well as its Schleswig-Holstein dependencies (Schleswig was a Danish dependency and Holstein a German dependency, both of which were ruled by Denmark). Open revolt broke out in 1848 in Holstein and southern Schleswig.
Prussia and later Austria entered the conflict on the side of the rebels. After two separate wars (1848-1850, and again in 1864), Denmark was defeated and forced to surrender the entire region to Prussia and Austria. Ironically, in 1920, the people of northern Schleswig voted to rejoin Denmark. The Danes were without an effective breechloader in their conflict with Prussia during the War of 1864, and were both outclassed and outgunned by the Prussian forces, which were armed with the breech-loading Dreyse rifles. After their defeat, and following an American tour by members of the Danish Ordnance Commission, which included a visit to Remington, the Danes placed an order for 20,000 of the new m/1867 rifles in April of 1867. This was important to the Remington firm, as it was Remington’s first significant order of rifles since the American Civil War and Remington’s first major overseas contract. In August of that same year, Denmark ordered an additional 10,000 rifles and 1,800 carbines. In May of the following year, 1868, it placed yet another order for 10,000 more of the M/1867 rifles.
In addition to these orders for Remington-manufactured rifles, the Danes (as would the Norwegians and Swedes soon thereafter) also secured the rights to manufacture the Remington design in Denmark at the Copenhagen arsenal, which they did in a quantity equal to the orders from Remington. Original, Remington-built M/1867 Danish rifles were supplied with American walnut stocks, color-case hardened receivers, and blued barrels. The Danish model initially utilized an 11.44 rimfire cartridge (11x41.5mm Danish). The choice of this caliber, in lieu of the much more common 12mm (.50 caliber) in vogue in the rest of the world in these years, resulted from a visit to US arms manufacturers, including Remington, of a Danish representative authorized to contract for the purchase of new rifles and to choose the caliber based on experiments then being undertaken by the US Army’s Ordnance Department. (Of note, these experiments would later lead to the adoption of the American .45-70, a cartridge quite similar to the Danish cartridge actually adopted.)
After the 1896 conversion of most Danish rifles, the now converted Danish rifles chamber the 1896 11.35 mm Danish Centerfire cartridge, which, for reasons unknown, is also commonly known as the 11.7x51R. This cartridge is very similar to the .45-70 US Government cartridge, although a bit shorter and with a slightly larger base. However, with the adoption of the 8mm Krag-Jørgensen in 1889, the need to update or abandon the Remington became acute. In 1893, some Danish Remingtons were re-barreled to chamber 8mm Krag-Jorgensen cartridges. The orders for Danish rifles, coupled with orders for Swedish rifles (and licensing for Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to produce rolling block rifles locally), paved the way for Remington's eventual enormous success in producing and licensing the rolling block rifle. After World War II a large quantity of these Danish Remington rifles were sold surplus to the US. Large quantities were misleadingly sold as chambered for the US .45-70 Government cartridge, which the Danish round closely resembles, but the two are not interchangeable.
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We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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