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Winchester 1866 engraved MJC from JB Hickok .44 cal. SN 36XXX lever action rifle with 24" octagon ba

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Winchester 1866 engraved MJC from JB Hickok .44 cal. SN 36XXX lever action rifle with 24  octagon ba
.44 cal. SN 36XXX lever action rifle with 24" octagon barrel (re-blued), full length magazine tube, crescent brass buttplate. Walnut stocks with XXX deluxe wood rear stock. Brass frame "gold wash finish" and engraved on both sides. Left side engraved with an outstretched winged American Eagle, with a sheaved arrow design surrounded with scroll work. Right side engraved "MJC from JB Hickok" to represent two well known people to the Deadwood area, Martha Jane Cannary (Calamity Jane) and James Butler Hickok. The rifle was featured in Great Falls Tribune as "Jane's Rifle" showing Bill Sisney of Kansas City proudly exhibiting the .44-caliber model 1866 Winchester at the annual state gun show of the Montana Arms Collectors Association, and states "Not long ago, a fellow collector offered Sisney his entire collection, 342 guns, for Jane's rifle and Sisney turned him down. Included is this articles from the Montana Tribune, hand written notes from Woody Hawkinson dated Nov. 2 1988, 2 hand written documents from Sisney and Ivan Hart date Feb. 13 1976, "To Whom it May Concern: I purchased the "J.B. Hickok to MJC 66 Winchester from John Bassett, who got the gun out of Ivan Hart's collection, Past history of ownership on other page. Signed W.V. Sisney, Ivan B. Hart. Witnessed and signed Feb 13 1976. The other pages read "Lloyd Bender of Gallion Ohio-1960 had owned the gun 10 or 15 yrs., others owning the gun include Roy Rifling, Jim Fowler, Ivan B Hart, Johnie Bassett, W.V. Sisney, signed Ivan B Hart, witnessed Feb. 13 1976 and 2 black and white photos, one of each side of the receiver taken by Comstock Picture Emporium, Creative Photography Owner George L Fuller. There is no known trace of the gun until it appears in the 1950's. Mfg'd 1870 NO FFL required.