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*SCARCE DELUXE SAVAGE MODEL 1899H FEATHERWEIGHT LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:2,000.00 USD Estimated At:4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD
*SCARCE DELUXE SAVAGE MODEL 1899H FEATHERWEIGHT LEVER ACTION RIFLE.
SN 79728. Cal. 25-35. Fine lightweight rifle with 20" tapered rnd bbl, tiny ivory bead pedestal front sight, Lyman 6A, 2-leaf folding rear sight and a locking Lyman tang sight with windage base. Mounted with very highly figured shell grain American walnut with small checkered schnable tip forearm and straight stock with Savage hard rubber buttplate which is an old replacement. Stock has raised checkered side panels and checkered wrist with sling eye in the bottom and corresponding sling eye in the forearm. Buttstock, under the buttplate, and forearm, on the rear face, are matching numbered to this rifle. These early featherweight rifles usually saw hard service as hunting rifles and are rarely found today with high orig finish. CONDITION: Fine to very fine, all matching except buttplate. Bbl retains 97-98% strong orig blue; receiver retains strong orig blue mixed with fine flaking, which losses are a light patina; lever retains bright case colors on left side, moderately faded on right side & outer faces. Stock has a hairline back of top tang, otherwise wood is sound with handling & use nicks & scratches. Buttstock retains 93-95% strong orig varnish and the forearm about 95-96% orig varnish. Mechanics are crisp, strong bright bore, frosty in the grooves. 4-47349 JR151