RARE WINCHESTER SECOND MODEL 1876 LEVER ACTION MUSKET.

RARE WINCHESTER SECOND MODEL 1876 LEVER ACTION MUSKET. SN 5067. Cal. 45-75. Standard grade musket with 32″ rnd bbl, barleycorn front sight and folding leaf musket rear sight graduated to 1,000 yards, missing its slide. Receiver is second type with screwed-on dust cover rail and third type plain dust cover. Mounted with uncheckered, slab-sawed American walnut with full length forearm, two bbl bands and straight stock with carbine/musket buttplate. Front band has a saber bayonet stud on right side with a loop on the left side which contains a partially concealed slotted head ramrod. Middle band has a sling loop with corresponding loop in the buttstock. Accompanied by an orig saber bayonet that has 20-1/4″ Yataghan blade marked on right ricasso “B” and has a brass feather pattern handle with eagle head pommel and an orig leather & brass scabbard. Also accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this musket with “lid (dust cover)”, “to A Room”, saber bayonet & scabbard, received in warehouse Aug. 22, 1878 and shipped Aug. 19, 1882 to Order #32704. Model ’76 muskets are generally considered quite rare and are seldom found with an orig bayonet in orig configuration with any amount of orig finish. PROVENANCE: Barnes Family Collection. CONDITION: Good to very good. The metal, overall, retains traces of orig blue being mostly a dark brown attic patina with lightly cleaned sideplates and fine pitting on left side of receiver; bottom front edge of receiver & correspondingly on the forearm show deterioration from rust. Stock has a couple of hairlines around the wrist and a couple more by the bottom tang showing deterioration around the top tang, otherwise wood is sound with nicks, dings, scratches & bruises and retains a hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine, strong bore with good shine, frosty in the grooves. Bayonet blade has been repolished with fine pitting; handle retains good feather detail with a lemon yellow patina; scabbard is solidified with a crackled finish and dark coffee color patina on the brass. 4-47634 JR223 (5,000-8,000)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2013

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
	1215	$4,600.00	RARE WINCHESTER SECOND MODEL 1876 LEVER ACTION MUSKET. SN 5067. Cal. 45-75. Standard grade musket with 32″ rnd bbl, barleycorn front sight and folding leaf musket rear sight graduated to 1,000 yards, missing its slide. Receiver is second type with screwed-on dust cover rail and third type plain dust cover. Mounted with uncheckered, slab-sawed American walnut with full length forearm, two bbl bands and straight stock with carbine/musket buttplate. Front band has a saber bayonet stud on right side with a loop on the left side which contains a partially concealed slotted head ramrod. Middle band has a sling loop with corresponding loop in the buttstock. Accompanied by an orig saber bayonet that has 20-1/4″ Yataghan blade marked on right ricasso “B” and has a brass feather pattern handle with eagle head pommel and an orig leather & brass scabbard. Also accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this musket with “lid (dust cover)”, “to A Room”, saber bayonet & scabbard, received in warehouse Aug. 22, 1878 and shipped Aug. 19, 1882 to Order #32704. Model ’76 muskets are generally considered quite rare and are seldom found with an orig bayonet in orig configuration with any amount of orig finish. PROVENANCE: Barnes Family Collection. CONDITION: Good to very good. The metal, overall, retains traces of orig blue being mostly a dark brown attic patina with lightly cleaned sideplates and fine pitting on left side of receiver; bottom front edge of receiver & correspondingly on the forearm show deterioration from rust. Stock has a couple of hairlines around the wrist and a couple more by the bottom tang showing deterioration around the top tang, otherwise wood is sound with nicks, dings, scratches & bruises and retains a hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine, strong bore with good shine, frosty in the grooves. Bayonet blade has been repolished with fine pitting; handle retains good feather detail with a lemon yellow patina; scabbard is solidified with a crackled finish and dark coffee color patina on the brass. 4-47634 JR223 (5,000-8,000) Auction: Firearms - Spring 2013 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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