RARE FIRST YEAR, 1ST TYPE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

RARE FIRST YEAR, 1ST TYPE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 3079. Cal. 38-55. Standard grade rifle with 1st type receiver that has external cartridge guide screws. It has 26″ oct bbl with full magazine, ivory bead combination front sight, semi-buckhorn rear sight and a locking Lyman combination tang sight. Mounted with uncheckered, straight grain American walnut with straight stock & crescent steel buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle in cal. 38-55 with oct bbl and plain trigger, received in warehouse March 18, 1895 and shipped June 18, 1895 to Order #13927. This cataloger recently read the old draft of an article written by Tommy Rholes and Jeb Klitzke regarding the external guide screw ’94s which included an inventory of surveyed rifles which included this rifle as identified by SN. This article was to have been published in the Winchester Arms Collector’s Association magazine The Winchester Collector. It is unknown whether it was ever published. An assumption gleaned from the article is that the external screw ’94s were only manufactured in 1894 and 1895 from the orig Browning design. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Extraordinarily fine, probably unfired, appears to be pristine new; overall retains about 99%, or more, strong orig factory finish to metal & wood; the bbl, magazine tube, receiver & forend cap have only faint sharp edge wear with one small spot of thinning on forend cap and a couple of candy stripes on the receiver; loading gate retains virtually all of its brilliant fire blue; lever & hammer retain brilliant case colors, a little thin on top edge of hammer and loop of lever; buttplate retains about all of its brilliant case colors; wood is sound with a very few, very small nicks & scratches and retains about all of its crisp, orig finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore; bolt face retains virtually all of its orig factory blue. 4-44396 JR445 (12,500-17,500)

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.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	2089	$31,625.00	RARE FIRST YEAR, 1ST TYPE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 3079. Cal. 38-55. Standard grade rifle with 1st type receiver that has external cartridge guide screws. It has 26″ oct bbl with full magazine, ivory bead combination front sight, semi-buckhorn rear sight and a locking Lyman combination tang sight. Mounted with uncheckered, straight grain American walnut with straight stock & crescent steel buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle in cal. 38-55 with oct bbl and plain trigger, received in warehouse March 18, 1895 and shipped June 18, 1895 to Order #13927. This cataloger recently read the old draft of an article written by Tommy Rholes and Jeb Klitzke regarding the external guide screw ’94s which included an inventory of surveyed rifles which included this rifle as identified by SN. This article was to have been published in the Winchester Arms Collector’s Association magazine The Winchester Collector. It is unknown whether it was ever published. An assumption gleaned from the article is that the external screw ’94s were only manufactured in 1894 and 1895 from the orig Browning design. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Extraordinarily fine, probably unfired, appears to be pristine new; overall retains about 99%, or more, strong orig factory finish to metal & wood; the bbl, magazine tube, receiver & forend cap have only faint sharp edge wear with one small spot of thinning on forend cap and a couple of candy stripes on the receiver; loading gate retains virtually all of its brilliant fire blue; lever & hammer retain brilliant case colors, a little thin on top edge of hammer and loop of lever; buttplate retains about all of its brilliant case colors; wood is sound with a very few, very small nicks & scratches and retains about all of its crisp, orig finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore; bolt face retains virtually all of its orig factory blue. 4-44396 JR445 (12,500-17,500) 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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