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EARLY STANDARD WINCHESTER MODEL 1895 LEVER ACTION MUSKET.

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:3,500.00 USD Estimated At:7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
EARLY STANDARD WINCHESTER MODEL 1895 LEVER ACTION MUSKET.
SN 7159. Cal. 30 US (30-40 Krag). Standard grade musket with 28" tapered rnd bbl, pedestal mounted front sight and 1,800 yard musket ladder rear sight. This is the early style standard musket without handguard and bbl markings only "NICKEL STEEL BARREL ESPECIALLY FOR SMOKELESS POWDER" in two lines and caliber marking over the chamber. Receiver is scalloped with additional lightning cut to the rear. Mounted with uncheckered, straight grain American walnut with full length forearm and straight stock with carbine musket buttplate with trap. Front band is Krag style with split straps, bayonet lug & stacking swivel. Middle band has a sling loop with corresponding sling swivel in the butt. Lever is the jointed type. PROVENANCE: Barnes Family Collection. CONDITION: Very fine to extremely fine. Bbl retains about 98% crisp orig blue as do the bbl bands; receiver retains about 90% bright orig blue with most of the losses from flaking around the top rear edges and slight wear in the same area; magazine box & lever also retain strong, bright blue with light flaking on the lever; hammer & trigger link retain about all of their bright orig case colors. Wood is sound with a very few, very small, very scattered light handling & storage nicks & scratches and retains virtually all of its orig factory fininsh. Mechanics are crisp, strong bright bore, slightly frosty in the grooves. 4-47624 JR209