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1010
$51,750.00

EXTRAORDINARY DELUXE WINCHESTER MODEL 1886 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 27586. Cal. 38-56. Fabulous deluxe ’86 with 26″ oct bbl, full magazine with rare Freund Rocky Mountain style front sight and rare Freund semi-buckhorn rear sight. Mounted with very highly figured flame & shell grain American walnut with “H” style checkered forearm & serpentine grip buttstock with black triangle inlay and Winchester hard rubber buttplate. Left side of lower tang is stamped with the assembly number “590”, “SRB” and “XXX”. The matching assembly number is found in top tang channel of buttstock. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter identifying this rifle in caliber 38-56 with oct bbl, plain trigger and checkered buttstock with pistol grip and shotgun butt with rubber buttplate, received in warehouse Aug. 10, 1889 and shipped same day to Order #24581. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Extremely fine plus, all matching. Overall retains virtually all of its extraordinary bright orig factory finish with only faint sharp edge wear on bbl and a few pin-prick spots of surface rust; magazine tube retains about 99% orig blue; receiver, lever, hammer & forend cap retain virtually all of their brilliant orig factory case colors showing only the most faint sharp edge wear, truly extraordinary case colors; wood is sound with a few very minor nicks & scratches and retains virtually all of its brilliant piano varnish finish with some light diamond point wear on checkering. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore, probably unfired; bolt face retains virtually all of its orig finish. 4-44476 (40,000-60,000)


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2013
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