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*WINCHESTER MODEL 1895 DELUXE LEVER ACTION RIFLE.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:3,750.00 USD Estimated At:7,500.00 - 12,500.00 USD
*WINCHESTER MODEL 1895 DELUXE LEVER ACTION RIFLE.
SN 416119. Cal. 30 GOV'T-06 (30-06). Beautiful, deluxe '95 with 24" tapered rnd bbl, pedestal mounted gold bead Lyman jack front sight and flat top rear sight. Mounted with about 2 X, flame grain American walnut with H-style checkered forearm that has black insert schnable tip and straight stock with crescent buttplate. Buttstock and forearm have after market applied, factory style sling eyes. Buttplate and buttplate screws are inexplicably bright nickel finished. The Model '95 was the first sporting rifle chambered for the high pressure, high velocity "new" military 30-06 cartridge and became an extremely popular hunting rifle throughout North America and a majority of the rest of the world. They usually show hard use with worn finishes. PROVENANCE: Woody Frey Collection. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Bbl retains 98-99% crisp orig blue and the receiver 96-98% crisp orig blue with faint sharp edge wear and some minor thinning to the top rear edges. Magazine box is slightly thinned on the bottom and the lever slightly dulled. Top and bottom tangs retain virtually all of their orig blue. Wood is sound with a very few light nicks & scratches in the varnish and overall retains about all of its crisp orig piano varnish finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore, has been fired, but very little. 4-48413 JR184