I just found a very unusual rifle and I am wondering if anyone else has one, or has seen one. It appears to be a swiss Martini with a lever on the right side of the reciever to drop the breech block, no underlever ant all. I have enclosed a picture. In this picture the breech is open, when closed the lever moves forward along side the reciever.
Thanks
Mike

Dave,

Some rectifications - Peabody was the inventor of the Peabody rifle, not of the Martini rifle - that was Martini.
Also, the modifications made by Martini were of such a radical nature as to create a major modification of the Peabody design, making it in fact a new design.  Don't forget, as from the availability of the Martini, even Providence Tool started manufacturing it, and stopped Peabody rifle production.  They even paid royalties to ol' Friedrich!
FWIW, the tilting block wasn't even a Peabody invention - it already existed under the form of a paper-cartridge breechloader of civil war design, the name of which escapes me right now.   
Saying the Martini is just a slightly modified Peabody is like saying that J.M. Browning took the Sharps design and lightly modified it to make his 1885, taking all the credit for it...  After all, it also has a falling block.

Getting off my soapbox now,

G.

Mike: I've had 2 of 'em. They are Danish or Swedish or one of them ish-s Look in Grant's Last book "Single Shot Finale" for some info on them. I sent the photos to Jim Grant.  R.B.