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Stevens Marksman .22 Long Rifle Single Shot Rifle

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
Stevens Marksman .22 Long Rifle Single Shot Rifle
Included in this lot is a Stevens Marksman .22 Long Rifle single shot rifle. Stevens Arms Company, well known for its Tip-up Pistols, Boy's Rifles, and Ideal Target and Sporting Rifles, got its start at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts in 1864. Founder Joshua Stevens was a New England toolmaker who had gained experience in firearms manufacture while employed at various times by C. B. Allen, Eli Whitney, Samuel Colt, and Edwin Wesson. While employed as production superintendent for the Chicopee Falls-based Massachusetts Arms Co., he filed a successful patent claim for improvements to percussion pistols produced by this firm. Stevens received a patent for a tip-up pistol design during the same year in which he, along with financial backers W. B. Fay and James Taylor, founded the company that bore his name. The company's early years saw production carried out in a former Chicopee Falls grist mill by fewer than 60 employees. J. Stevens and Co. underwent an expansion in 1880 and in 1886, the firm changed its name to J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. The Marksman was less common than the popular Stevens' Favorite and other like-size rifles and was made between circa 1912 and 1933 by the Stevens Arms Company, made in Chicopee Falls, Mass. It was a major improvement over its smaller cousin the No. 15 Maynard Jr. and replaced it in 1914. This rifle utilizes a 22” round barrel with dovetailed front sight and rear sight. The rifle has a break lever action design for a single shot .22 Long Rifle cartridge. The barrel is stamped on top “22 – Long Rifle” and the left of the receiver is marked “J. Stevens Arms Company Chicopee Falls, Mass. U.S.A. – Marksman -. Serial Number: P659. This firearm qualifies as a Curio & Relic, and requires FFL Transfer or NICS Background Check.