Image Lot Price Description


1077
$4,600.00

*SPECIAL ORDER WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 167975. Cal. 32-40. Standard grade rifle with special order 28″ oct bbl, full magazine, Lyman ivory bead hunting front sight, scarce folding semi-buckhorn rear sight and Lyman combination tang sight. Mounted with nicely figured, uncheckered, straight grain American walnut with straight stock and crescent buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum fact sheet which identifies this rifle, as found, received in warehouse Dec. 30, 1902 and shipped next day to Order #T105484. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very good. Bbl retains 92-93% dulling orig blue with sharp edge wear and some thinning over top flats; magazine tube retains 95-96% orig blue, slightly dulled; forend cap retains 88-90% orig blue; receiver retains about 70% orig blue having been cleaned with some fine pin prick pitting on sides; lever & hammer retain strong case colors on sides, faded on outer faces of lever. Wood is sound and retains about 90% strong orig varnish with a hand worn patina around wrist. Mechanics are fine, strong bright bore with minor roughness in the grooves. 4-44330 JR4 (800-1,500)


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2013
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