Image Lot Price Description




1056
$4,600.00

WINCHESTER MODEL 1886 LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

SN 79875. Cal. 40-82. Standard grade rifle with 26″ oct bbl, full magazine, half nickel front sight and semi-buckhorn rear sight. Mounted with uncheckered, straight grain American walnut with straight stock & crescent buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle in caliber 40-82 with oct bbl & plain trigger, received in warehouse June 23, 1893 and shipped the next day to order number 20105. These standard rifles were daily use tools, primarily hunting weapons & self-protection arms. They usually are found with little or no orig finish. PROVENANCE: Tommy Rholes Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very good to fine. Bbl retains about 90% orig finish turning a little plum with sharp edge wear; magazine tube retains strong blue in sheltered areas being mostly a plummy blue patina; receiver retains 50-60% faded case colors, mostly on the left side with the balance a mottled silver patina; stock has a series of small gouges & bruises on the right side with nicks & scratches elsewhere and retains a dark hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine; strong shiny bore with scattered pitting. 4-50537 JR304 (3,000-5,000) – Lot 1056


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2014
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