EXTREMELY RARE DELUXE ENGRAVED NICKEL & GOLD EXHIBITION WINCHESTER MODEL 1886 SADDLE RING CARBINE.

EXTREMELY RARE DELUXE ENGRAVED NICKEL & GOLD EXHIBITION WINCHESTER MODEL 1886 SADDLE RING CARBINE. SN 114695. Cal. 45-90. Usual configuration with 22″ rnd bbl, full magazine, square base front sight and carbine ladder rear sight with broken staff. Left side of receiver has a stud & ring wrapped in rawhide. Mounted with very highly figured 2-3X burl & flame grain American walnut with “H” style checkered forearm & straight stock with carbine buttplate. Buttstock is drilled & milled for a buttplate with trap. Carbine has a gold washed receiver over nickel plating with balance of metal nickel plated. Receiver is engraved by John Ulrich and signed on bottom tang. Engraving is No. 6 style and consists of a large elliptical vignette on left side of a very detailed white tail buck & doe in a forested mountain scene surrounded by a counterpoint border with foliate arabesque patterns that has punch dot background fore & aft with a snake & dot border. Right side is engraved in foliate arabesque patterns with matching borders and a rosette around the loading gate screw hole. Top edges of receiver are engraved in snake & dot borders with chip & dot borders on edges of bolt. Top tang has very fine zig zag borders. Receiver ring, rear end of bolt, top tang and bottom of receiver are lightly engraved in foliate arabesque patterns with a large sunburst around the lever slot. Buttplate tang is also lightly engraved. Bbl & receiver are stamped with the Winchester “WP” proof. Left side of lower tang is stamped with assembly number “365” and “XX”. Assembly number is also found in top tang channel of buttstock and inside toe of buttplate. There is also an “S” stamped inside toe of buttplate and it has the numbers “696” or “969” stamped on inside of one edge with two punch marks. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this firearm as a carbine in caliber 45-90 with fancy wood, checkered stock, 1/2 gilt – 1/2 nickel, engraved $5.00, shipped in Jan. 1898 to Order #3118. There are about 15 shipping dates and returns through March 1907. Many of the shipments were along with SN 114694. Letter also indicates that it was sold Nov. 12, 1907 to Order #130542 and that it was subsequently returned & repaired twice, once Nov. 15, 1907 and again May 12, 1910 with a third return & repair on June 15, 1910. This well-traveled carbine undoubtedly was part of Winchester’s inventory for exhibit and show purposes. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very fine, all matching. Bbl, magazine tube & bbl bands retain virtually all of their strong orig nickel finish with a few light scratches and wear over forearm area; receiver retains strong gold on sides, worn to bare metal on top & bottom with strong gold on top & bottom tangs; buttplate retains traces of gold on outside, strong on inside; wood is sound and retains about all of a factory restored finish. Mechanics are crisp, bright shiny bore with a ring about 10″ from muzzle and a couple of spots of pitting toward the muzzle. 4-44524 JR329 (45,000-70,000)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2012

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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	2064	$46,000.00	EXTREMELY RARE DELUXE ENGRAVED NICKEL & GOLD EXHIBITION WINCHESTER MODEL 1886 SADDLE RING CARBINE. SN 114695. Cal. 45-90. Usual configuration with 22″ rnd bbl, full magazine, square base front sight and carbine ladder rear sight with broken staff. Left side of receiver has a stud & ring wrapped in rawhide. Mounted with very highly figured 2-3X burl & flame grain American walnut with “H” style checkered forearm & straight stock with carbine buttplate. Buttstock is drilled & milled for a buttplate with trap. Carbine has a gold washed receiver over nickel plating with balance of metal nickel plated. Receiver is engraved by John Ulrich and signed on bottom tang. Engraving is No. 6 style and consists of a large elliptical vignette on left side of a very detailed white tail buck & doe in a forested mountain scene surrounded by a counterpoint border with foliate arabesque patterns that has punch dot background fore & aft with a snake & dot border. Right side is engraved in foliate arabesque patterns with matching borders and a rosette around the loading gate screw hole. Top edges of receiver are engraved in snake & dot borders with chip & dot borders on edges of bolt. Top tang has very fine zig zag borders. Receiver ring, rear end of bolt, top tang and bottom of receiver are lightly engraved in foliate arabesque patterns with a large sunburst around the lever slot. Buttplate tang is also lightly engraved. Bbl & receiver are stamped with the Winchester “WP” proof. Left side of lower tang is stamped with assembly number “365” and “XX”. Assembly number is also found in top tang channel of buttstock and inside toe of buttplate. There is also an “S” stamped inside toe of buttplate and it has the numbers “696” or “969” stamped on inside of one edge with two punch marks. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this firearm as a carbine in caliber 45-90 with fancy wood, checkered stock, 1/2 gilt – 1/2 nickel, engraved $5.00, shipped in Jan. 1898 to Order #3118. There are about 15 shipping dates and returns through March 1907. Many of the shipments were along with SN 114694. Letter also indicates that it was sold Nov. 12, 1907 to Order #130542 and that it was subsequently returned & repaired twice, once Nov. 15, 1907 and again May 12, 1910 with a third return & repair on June 15, 1910. This well-traveled carbine undoubtedly was part of Winchester’s inventory for exhibit and show purposes. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very fine, all matching. Bbl, magazine tube & bbl bands retain virtually all of their strong orig nickel finish with a few light scratches and wear over forearm area; receiver retains strong gold on sides, worn to bare metal on top & bottom with strong gold on top & bottom tangs; buttplate retains traces of gold on outside, strong on inside; wood is sound and retains about all of a factory restored finish. Mechanics are crisp, bright shiny bore with a ring about 10″ from muzzle and a couple of spots of pitting toward the muzzle. 4-44524 JR329 (45,000-70,000) Auction: Firearms - Spring 2012 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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