FINE & RARE ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1866 SADDLE RING CARBINE WITH IVORY STOCK & FOREARM.

SN 44316. Cal. 44 RF Henry. Usual configuration with 20″ bbl, full magazine, integral front band/front sight and 2-position flip rear sight graduated 100-300-500 yards. Mounted with uncheckered solid ivory with carbine forearm and straight stock with crescent buttplate that has a trap. Inside toe of buttplate has last four digits of matching SN. Receiver & buttplate are silver finished and engraved in very distinctive L.D. Nimschke style with very large panel on left sideplate depicting an Indian on horseback wearing full headdress escaping with a woman in a long dress across his saddle. In the background is a man standing in front of a log cabin firing a gun toward the escaping Indian. Background has a large fir tree and various other forms of vegetation all surrounded by flowing, intertwined foliate arabesque scrolls with pearled background. Left rear side of the frame is engraved with a narrow ribbon. Raised area forward of the sideplate is engraved in distinctive wheat chaff patterns with an elliptical shape in the center. Right side is engraved identically but with an empty panel in the center. Both front side flats have identical empty ribbons surrounded by foliate arabesque patterns. Top of the receiver is engraved with a large flower blossom and various other patterns with distinctive matching patterns on the top & bottom tangs. Bottom of the carrier is engraved in Mr. Nimschke’s distinctive 4-petal flower blossom inside a sweeping diamond shape with spider web patterns at each corner. The area between the timing screws is engraved in reverse images of foliate arabesque patterns with a rectangular panel between the screws stamped “L.D.N”. The “N” has been dbl struck. Most unusually the bbl bands are engraved on each side. These exact patterns on both sides of the receiver, the area between the timing screws, top of the receiver back of the ejection port, top & bottom tangs and the flower blossom atop the receiver are all pictured on p. 57 of L.D. Nimschke Firearms Engraver, Wilson. These depictions in the book are reproductions of Mr. Nimschke’s smoke pulls as compiled from the Nimschke archives by Mr. Wilson. Mr. Nimschke’s notation in the right side smoke pull is “Septbr. 1869” with another indecipherable notation. this carbine appears to have been produced in 1870. An extremely rare and extraordinary find. CONDITION: Fine. Bbl & magazine tube retain a smooth blue/brown patina with some mottling on the bbl toward the muzzle; receiver & sideplates retain 30-40% orig silver finish with traces of silver down in the engraving; hammer retains strong, bright case colors; lever is a gray patina. Stock has a couple of age lines parallel with the stock recess with a couple of others in the forearm, otherwise ivory is completely sound showing very little wear and overall retains a fine, mellow ivory patina. Mechanics are fine, strong bore with moderate pitting. 4-51483 JR172 (60,000-80,000) – Lot 1107

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2014

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	1107	$80,500.00	FINE & RARE ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1866 SADDLE RING CARBINE WITH IVORY STOCK & FOREARM. SN 44316. Cal. 44 RF Henry. Usual configuration with 20″ bbl, full magazine, integral front band/front sight and 2-position flip rear sight graduated 100-300-500 yards. Mounted with uncheckered solid ivory with carbine forearm and straight stock with crescent buttplate that has a trap. Inside toe of buttplate has last four digits of matching SN. Receiver & buttplate are silver finished and engraved in very distinctive L.D. Nimschke style with very large panel on left sideplate depicting an Indian on horseback wearing full headdress escaping with a woman in a long dress across his saddle. In the background is a man standing in front of a log cabin firing a gun toward the escaping Indian. Background has a large fir tree and various other forms of vegetation all surrounded by flowing, intertwined foliate arabesque scrolls with pearled background. Left rear side of the frame is engraved with a narrow ribbon. Raised area forward of the sideplate is engraved in distinctive wheat chaff patterns with an elliptical shape in the center. Right side is engraved identically but with an empty panel in the center. Both front side flats have identical empty ribbons surrounded by foliate arabesque patterns. Top of the receiver is engraved with a large flower blossom and various other patterns with distinctive matching patterns on the top & bottom tangs. Bottom of the carrier is engraved in Mr. Nimschke’s distinctive 4-petal flower blossom inside a sweeping diamond shape with spider web patterns at each corner. The area between the timing screws is engraved in reverse images of foliate arabesque patterns with a rectangular panel between the screws stamped “L.D.N”. The “N” has been dbl struck. Most unusually the bbl bands are engraved on each side. These exact patterns on both sides of the receiver, the area between the timing screws, top of the receiver back of the ejection port, top & bottom tangs and the flower blossom atop the receiver are all pictured on p. 57 of L.D. Nimschke Firearms Engraver, Wilson. These depictions in the book are reproductions of Mr. Nimschke’s smoke pulls as compiled from the Nimschke archives by Mr. Wilson. Mr. Nimschke’s notation in the right side smoke pull is “Septbr. 1869” with another indecipherable notation. this carbine appears to have been produced in 1870. An extremely rare and extraordinary find. CONDITION: Fine. Bbl & magazine tube retain a smooth blue/brown patina with some mottling on the bbl toward the muzzle; receiver & sideplates retain 30-40% orig silver finish with traces of silver down in the engraving; hammer retains strong, bright case colors; lever is a gray patina. Stock has a couple of age lines parallel with the stock recess with a couple of others in the forearm, otherwise ivory is completely sound showing very little wear and overall retains a fine, mellow ivory patina. Mechanics are fine, strong bore with moderate pitting. 4-51483 JR172 (60,000-80,000) – Lot 1107 Auction: Firearms - Spring 2014 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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FINE & RARE ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1866 SADDLE RING CARBINE WITH IVORY STOCK & FOREARM.