Image Lot Price Description

1202
$1,725.00

*WINCHESTER MODEL 1892 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. Cal. 38 WCF (38-40). SN 145569. Standard grade rifle with 24-1/4″ rnd bbl, full magazine, half nickel front sight with screw & semi-buckhorn rear sight. Mounted with nicely figured, slab sawed, uncheckered, American walnut with straight stock & crescent buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter fully identifying this rifle as having been received in warehouse Aug. 30, 1900 & shipped Nov. 8, 1901. CONDITION: Fine. Bbl & magazine tube retain 95-97% strong bright orig blue. Forend cap retains about 75% orig blue. Receiver retains traces of orig blue in sheltered areas, having been cleaned to a gray metal color. Lever retains about 50% faded case colors & hammer about 90% strong case colors. Wood is sound with light nicks, dings & scratches, with forearm retaining about 65-70% orig varnish & buttstock about 95%. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore. Goforth Collection 4-60563 JR126 (1,250-1,750)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2006
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