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*SCARCE DELUXE WINCHESTER MODEL 1895 LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:3,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD
*SCARCE DELUXE WINCHESTER MODEL 1895 LEVER ACTION RIFLE.
SN 26739. Cal. 38-72. Fine deluxe rifle with 26" tapered oct bbl, half nickel front sight with screw and semi-buckhorn rear sight. Mounted with very highly figured, center crotch, flame grain American walnut with H-style checkered, black insert, schnabel tip forearm and straight stock with smooth steel buttplate. Rear face of buttstock is marked with the assembly number "95 / 7378" and matching assembly number is found inside toe of the buttplate. Neither the upper or lower tang, under the wood is assembly number marked. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter and fact sheet which identifies this rifle in caliber 40-72 with oct bbl, plain trigger, rubber shotgun butt, received in warehouse June 5, 1900, "September 25, 1900 (written in left margin)", shipped Sept. 27, 1900 to Order #73137. Obviously there was a recording error as regards the caliber and possibly the quality of the wood. Apparently this rifle was returned to the factory for a bbl & caliber change and upgraded wood. CONDITION: Fine to very fine. Bbl retains about 98% strong orig blue with a few light freckles over the forearm area; receiver retains 93-95% orig blue turned dull over top & bottom edges and cartridge box; lever retains about 85% orig blue. Wood is sound with only a couple of light handling & storage nicks and retains about all of a fine professionally restored finish. Mechanics are fine, brilliant shiny bore. 4-47352