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*LATE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE FROM THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY FIREARMS R

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*LATE WINCHESTER MODEL 1894 LEVER ACTION RIFLE FROM THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY FIREARMS R
SN 826609. Cal. 25-35. Standard grade rifle with 26" oct bbl, full magazine, standard front sight and late style flat top rear sight. Mounted with uncheckered, straight grain American walnut with straight stock & crescent buttplate. Accompanied by a small zinc tag numbered "1135" on a brass wire loop which was the inventory number of this rifle in the Winchester Reference Collection. Also accompanied by a 1-1/2" diameter brass disc marked "EWM" and "68". No indication of what the brass tag was for. Very few arms from the Winchester Reference Collection have ever come to market. This rifle appears as item number 1135 in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Firearms Reference Collection book as item number 1135 which is described as "model 1894 solid frame, 25-35, 26" octagon barrel, plain standard gun, serial number 826609, gun assembled in 1916." CONDITION: Extremely fine plus, probably unfired. Overall retains about 99% crisp orig factory blue with a couple of small spots of minor flaking on forend cap and some tiny nicks on right side of receiver with a small scratch and a few pinheads of flaking on right side of receiver & floorplate; lever, hammer, buttplate & forend cap retain about all of their crisp orig factory blue. Wood is sound with a very few, very scattered, very light storage & handling nicks & scratches and overall retains virtually all of its bright, crisp, orig factory finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore, appears to be unfired, retaining virtually all of its bright blue on the bolt face & loading gate, showing no evidence of ever having been loaded. 4-47176 JR142