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RARE DELUXE SECOND MODEL WINCHESTER 1873 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 30088. Cal. 44 WCF (44-40).
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RARE DELUXE SECOND MODEL WINCHESTER 1873 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 30088. Cal. 44 WCF (44-40). Beautiful early rifle with 24-1/4" oct bbl, full magazine with 1866-style threaded plug, combination front sight and early semi-buckhorn rear sight with checkered edges. The case colored receiver has a second type, screwed-on dust cover rail with impressed thumb print dust cover. Mounted with about 2-3X, highly figured American walnut with early style checkered forearm and straight stock that has crescent buttplate with trap. Left side of lower tang, under the wood, is marked with the assembly number "754" and "XX". Matching assembly number is found in top tang channel of the buttstock and inside the toe of the buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle with oct bbl, case hardened, checkered stock and plain trigger, received in warehouse July 17, 1878 and shipped two days later with eleven other guns to the same order. Order # not provided. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very fine plus. Bbl & magazine tube retain 97-98% strong orig blue; receiver & sideplates retain orig case colors, bright on left side, somewhat more faded on right side; top & bottom edges are moderately to heavily faded with light colors; hammer retains bright case colors; lever retains bright case colors on sides, moderately faded on outer faces; buttplate retains strong bright case colors. Stock has a couple of tiny hairlines by the top tang and another at the right corner of the buttplate tang, otherwise wood is sound and retains about all of a fine professionally restored finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore. Bolt face & loading gate retain most of their orig factory finish indicating very light use. 4-44565 JR39
Starting Price: $12,500
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RARE DELUXE SECOND MODEL WINCHESTER 1873 LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 30088. Cal. 44 WCF (44-40). Beautiful early rifle with 24-1/4" oct bbl, full magazine with 1866-style threaded plug, combination front sight and early semi-buckhorn rear sight with checkered edges. The case colored receiver has a second type, screwed-on dust cover rail with impressed thumb print dust cover. Mounted with about 2-3X, highly figured American walnut with early style checkered forearm and straight stock that has crescent buttplate with trap. Left side of lower tang, under the wood, is marked with the assembly number "754" and "XX". Matching assembly number is found in top tang channel of the buttstock and inside the toe of the buttplate. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this rifle with oct bbl, case hardened, checkered stock and plain trigger, received in warehouse July 17, 1878 and shipped two days later with eleven other guns to the same order. Order # not provided. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very fine plus. Bbl & magazine tube retain 97-98% strong orig blue; receiver & sideplates retain orig case colors, bright on left side, somewhat more faded on right side; top & bottom edges are moderately to heavily faded with light colors; hammer retains bright case colors; lever retains bright case colors on sides, moderately faded on outer faces; buttplate retains strong bright case colors. Stock has a couple of tiny hairlines by the top tang and another at the right corner of the buttplate tang, otherwise wood is sound and retains about all of a fine professionally restored finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore. Bolt face & loading gate retain most of their orig factory finish indicating very light use. 4-44565 JR39
Starting Price: $12,500
Two Day March Firearms Auction
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Fairfield
Maine
04937
United States
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