RARE SPECIAL ORDER 1ST TYPE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 TAKEDOWN LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

RARE SPECIAL ORDER 1ST TYPE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 TAKEDOWN LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 3238. Cal. 38-55. Standard grade rifle, very rare 1st Type with 26″ rnd bbl, full magazine, ivory bead combination front sight, semi-buckhorn rear seat and a Lyman combination tang sight. Receiver is the 1st type with external cartridge guide screws. Mounted with very highly figured, uncheckered, burl American walnut with straight stock & crescent steel buttplate. The left side of the lower tang is unmarked but has the number “72” on right side of upper tang, under the wood. Top tang channel of buttstock has assembly number “1761”, which number is also found inside toe of buttplate. Forearm is of matching quality wood. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle in cal. 38-55 with rnd bbl, “fancy stock” & takedown, received in warehouse April 10, 1895 and shipped next day to Order #9924. Also accompanied by a copy of the shipping record. This cataloger recently read the old draft of an article written by Tommy Rholes and Jeb Klitzke regarding the external guide screw ’94s which included an inventory of surveyed rifles which included this rifle as identified by SN. This article was to have been published in the Winchester Arms Collector’s Association magazine The Winchester Collector. It is unknown whether it was ever published. An assumption gleaned from the article is that the external screw ’94s were only manufactured in 1894 and 1895 from the orig Browning design. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Extremely fine; may be unfired. Bbl & magazine tube retain about 99% strong orig blue with 98-99% orig blue on forend cap; takedown ring retains about 95% strong orig blue with some light surface flaking; receiver retains sharp edge wear with light candy striping and light flaking and overall retains 94-95% strong orig blue; hammer retains strong, dark case colors; lever retains brilliant case colors on sides and elsewhere in sheltered areas with outer faces turned silver; buttplate retains 97-98% brilliant orig case colors; wood is sound with a very few, very tiny nicks & scratches and retains about all of its strong orig piano varnish finish with a spot of touchup over some old nicks in the finish on the left side. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore. 4-44399 JR446 (8,000-15,000)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2012

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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	2037	$22,137.50	RARE SPECIAL ORDER 1ST TYPE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 TAKEDOWN LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 3238. Cal. 38-55. Standard grade rifle, very rare 1st Type with 26″ rnd bbl, full magazine, ivory bead combination front sight, semi-buckhorn rear seat and a Lyman combination tang sight. Receiver is the 1st type with external cartridge guide screws. Mounted with very highly figured, uncheckered, burl American walnut with straight stock & crescent steel buttplate. The left side of the lower tang is unmarked but has the number “72” on right side of upper tang, under the wood. Top tang channel of buttstock has assembly number “1761”, which number is also found inside toe of buttplate. Forearm is of matching quality wood. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle in cal. 38-55 with rnd bbl, “fancy stock” & takedown, received in warehouse April 10, 1895 and shipped next day to Order #9924. Also accompanied by a copy of the shipping record. This cataloger recently read the old draft of an article written by Tommy Rholes and Jeb Klitzke regarding the external guide screw ’94s which included an inventory of surveyed rifles which included this rifle as identified by SN. This article was to have been published in the Winchester Arms Collector’s Association magazine The Winchester Collector. It is unknown whether it was ever published. An assumption gleaned from the article is that the external screw ’94s were only manufactured in 1894 and 1895 from the orig Browning design. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Extremely fine; may be unfired. Bbl & magazine tube retain about 99% strong orig blue with 98-99% orig blue on forend cap; takedown ring retains about 95% strong orig blue with some light surface flaking; receiver retains sharp edge wear with light candy striping and light flaking and overall retains 94-95% strong orig blue; hammer retains strong, dark case colors; lever retains brilliant case colors on sides and elsewhere in sheltered areas with outer faces turned silver; buttplate retains 97-98% brilliant orig case colors; wood is sound with a very few, very tiny nicks & scratches and retains about all of its strong orig piano varnish finish with a spot of touchup over some old nicks in the finish on the left side. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore. 4-44399 JR446 (8,000-15,000) Auction: Firearms - Spring 2012 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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