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1134
$21,850.00

DELUXE SPECIAL ORDER WINCHESTER MODEL 1886 LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

SN 99351. Cal. 45-70. Beautiful Special Order Deluxe rifle with 26″ oct to rnd bbl, half magazine with Lyman silver bead front sight & 3-leaf platinum line express rear sight. Mounted with 3-4X center crotch, flame grain American walnut with H-style checkered forearm & black insert pistol grip stock with a replacement hard rubber buttplate. Buttplate is from a Remington rifle or shotgun with the Remington logo in the center. Stock & forend cap have sling eyes. Left side of lower tang, under the wood, is marked with the assembly number “536”, “XX” and “RB”. The “RB” stands for “rubber buttplate”. Matching assembly number is found in the top tang channel of the buttstock. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum worksheet which identifies this rifle in caliber 45-70, half oct bbl, plain trigger and checkered, shotgun, pistol grip buttstock with half magazine, Winchester Express and Lyman rear sights with half magazine and sling & swivels; received in the warehouse 4-1-1895 and shipped same day to Order #9267. A note under the remarks section shows “changed to 5-3-1895 #11478”. This apparently refers to the shipping date & order number. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Bbl retains 95-97% strong orig blue with several small scratches on the bottom; magazine tube retains about 98% orig blue; receiver, lever, hammer & forend cap retain virtually all of their brilliant, orig case colors, showing only light sharp edge wear and some light fading on the belly. There is a small replaced chip on the grip, otherwise wood is sound with a few light handling & storage nicks & scratches and retains virtually all of its orig piano varnish finish. The entire rifle appears to have a coating of old dried oil or may have been displayed over a fireplace with a smoke coating, all of which will clean extremely well. mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore; shows very little use, if any. 4-51511 JR272 (15,000-25,000) – Lot 1134


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2014
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