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1059
$2,875.00

*SCARCE DELUXE WINSLOW BOLT ACTION RIFLE. Cal. 338 Win Mag. SN 19969. Spectacular custom rifle built on a commercial FN action with 26″ tapered rnd bbl. The receiver is mounted with a Redfield Junior base and rings containing a Redfield 3-9X scope. The bolt body, extractor and follower are jeweled. It is mounted in the Winslow trademark spectacularly carved, highly figured walnut stock. The forestock has a wide convex bottom tapering to the rosewood tip and is carved in the gullets on each side with deep relief basket weave oak & acorn patterns by master stock maker Nils Hulkern. The bottom of the forestock is inlaid with the Winslow trademark ivory shield scrimshawed with a knight’s helmet and surrounded by deep carving. The trademark pistol grip has identical basket weave oak leaf & acorn carvings and has a sweeping rosewood grip cap inlaid with an ivory diamond scrimmed with the initials “AHG”. The buttstock has a very deep rollover cheek piece with contoured butt and a black Pachmayr pad. The right side of the buttstock is inlaid with Winslow’s trademark sweeping ivory inlay, which has the black figure of a running bull moose. The right side of the stock, by the ejection port, has a triple ivory & ebony diamond inlay. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Retains virtually all of its wonderful custom finish to both metal & wood with minor handling & use marks and two or three small cracks in the deep varnish on the stock and slight crazing on the rosewood. Mechanics are crisp, bright shiny bore. From the Collection of the late Allen Graves. 4-54361 JR78 (5,000-8,000)


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2005
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