WONDERFUL & RARE GOLD & NICKEL ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1892 SADDLE RING CARBINE.

WONDERFUL & RARE GOLD & NICKEL ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1892 SADDLE RING CARBINE. Cal. 44 WCF (44-40). SN 67379. Standard carbine with 20” rnd bbl, full magazine, square base front sight with an “1873” marked carbine ladder rear sight. Receiver has a staple & ring in left side. Mounted with extremely beautiful, checkered, flame grain & burl, American walnut with H-style checkering & straight stock with carbine buttplate. Left side of lower tang under the wood is stamped with assembly number “3553” and “XXX”. Assembly number is also found on butt of stock, underneath buttplate along with “92” and inside toe of buttplate. Receiver is beautifully engraved, probably by John Ulrich, with a large vignette of a whitetail buck & doe in a field scene on left side, surrounded by foliate arabesque patterns with a zigzag & dot border. Right side has same border with foliate arabesque patterns. There are other light patterns over receiver ring & on bottom of receiver. Buttplate tang also has a light pattern. Receiver, bbl band & buttplate are gold plated, while bbl, magazine tube, sights, lever, trigger, bolt & hammer are nickel plated. Staple & ring are also nickel plated. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter fully identifying this carbine with $5.00 engraving “GILT & NICKEL” and indicates that it was shipped Dec. 18, 1896 to order 24345. CONDITION: Very fine. Bbl retains 92-93% strong orig nickel with ladder rear sight about 95%. Magazine tube retains 85-90% orig nickel with some flaking to a dark patina. Receiver may have been re-gilded as there is some fine pitting under plating. Lower tang has some flaking turned to dark patina. Wood is sound with numerous light handling & use marks and retains most of its orig piano varnish finish. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore with a scattered few spots of pitting. Goforth Collection 4-60629 JR515 (40,000-60,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2006

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	1133	$37,375.00	WONDERFUL & RARE GOLD & NICKEL ENGRAVED WINCHESTER MODEL 1892 SADDLE RING CARBINE. Cal. 44 WCF (44-40). SN 67379. Standard carbine with 20” rnd bbl, full magazine, square base front sight with an “1873” marked carbine ladder rear sight. Receiver has a staple & ring in left side. Mounted with extremely beautiful, checkered, flame grain & burl, American walnut with H-style checkering & straight stock with carbine buttplate. Left side of lower tang under the wood is stamped with assembly number “3553” and “XXX”. Assembly number is also found on butt of stock, underneath buttplate along with “92” and inside toe of buttplate. Receiver is beautifully engraved, probably by John Ulrich, with a large vignette of a whitetail buck & doe in a field scene on left side, surrounded by foliate arabesque patterns with a zigzag & dot border. Right side has same border with foliate arabesque patterns. There are other light patterns over receiver ring & on bottom of receiver. Buttplate tang also has a light pattern. Receiver, bbl band & buttplate are gold plated, while bbl, magazine tube, sights, lever, trigger, bolt & hammer are nickel plated. Staple & ring are also nickel plated. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter fully identifying this carbine with $5.00 engraving “GILT & NICKEL” and indicates that it was shipped Dec. 18, 1896 to order 24345. CONDITION: Very fine. Bbl retains 92-93% strong orig nickel with ladder rear sight about 95%. Magazine tube retains 85-90% orig nickel with some flaking to a dark patina. Receiver may have been re-gilded as there is some fine pitting under plating. Lower tang has some flaking turned to dark patina. Wood is sound with numerous light handling & use marks and retains most of its orig piano varnish finish. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore with a scattered few spots of pitting. Goforth Collection 4-60629 JR515 (40,000-60,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2006 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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