Image Lot Price Description

2116
$1,610.00

*MARLIN MODEL 47 PUMP ACTION RIFLE. SN 2840. Cal. 22. Dainty little rifle with 22″ rnd bbl, 7/8 magazine, gold bead front sight & orig sheet metal semi-buckhorn rear sight. Mounted with lightly checkered, straight grain American walnut with rnd bullet shaped forearm & straight stock with smooth steel semi-crescent buttplate. Receiver is color case hardened & top tang is marked “MARLIN / NO 47”. This little rifle was in fact not a Marlin catalogued item but was an incentive offered free with purchase of four shares of Marlin preferred stock for $100. Less than 3,900 of these little rifles were ever made. Reference Marlin Firearms, Brophy. CONDITION: Fine to very fine. Bbl & magazine tube retain most of their orig factory blue with some minor dull spots & wear at muzzle edge and by the cartridge slot in magazine tube. Receiver retains most of its orig case colors, moderately faded & dark on top & bottom. Wood is sound showing evidence of an old sanding on buttstock with forearm retaining about 50% orig varnish. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore. 4-35380 JR62 (1,000-2,000)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008
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