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2100
$17,250.00

*VERY RARE, SPECIAL ORDER WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

SN 820658. Cal. 32 Spcl. Rare, late deluxe rifle with 26″ oct to rnd bbl, full magazine with standard front sight & semi-buckhorn rear sight and with a Lyman 21 receiver sight. Mounted with 2-3X shell grain American walnut with H-style checkered forearm & straight stock with Swiss buttplate. Receiver, forend cap, magazine band & buttplate are all factory silver plated. Left side of lower tang, under the wood, is marked “71 S SLV XX”. Rear face of the buttstock, under the buttplate, is stamped and marked in pencil with the last three digits of matching serial number. Inside toe of buttplate is marked with the matching assembly number “71” and last three digits of matching serial number. Late rifles such as this one are rarely ever found with special plating, especially not being engraved. PROVENANCE: The Dr. Edmund Lewis Collection. CONDITION: Very fine to extremely fine, all matching. Bbl & magazine tube retain 97-98% strong orig blue with only very light sharp edge wear and a small scratch on the magazine tube. Receiver, forend cap & buttplate retain most of their orig silver plating, being moderately oxidized. Wood is sound with a few small creases in the finish of the buttstock and a small bruise in the wrist. Overall retains about 90% orig varnish showing light dulling on the wrist & rear 1/3 of the forearm. Mechanics are fine; bright shiny bore. 4-51217 JR5 (15,000-25,000) – Lot 2100


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2014
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