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BEAUTIFUL DELUXE WINCHESTER MODEL 1876 SPECIAL ORDER LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 16769. Cal. 45-60.
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BEAUTIFUL DELUXE WINCHESTER MODEL 1876 SPECIAL ORDER LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 16769. Cal. 45-60. Fine deluxe rifle with 26" oct bbl, button magazine, half nickel front sight, "1876" marked ladder rear sight and tang sight with 4" staff. Mounted with highly figured flame & shell grain American walnut with "H" style checkered forearm and straight stock with smooth steel buttplate. Receiver is 2nd type with screwed-on dust cover rail and has sgl set trigger. Bbl has usual 2-line address with caliber marking over chamber on top flat and also on the carrier. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter identifying this rifle in caliber 45-60 with 26" oct bbl, set trigger, checkered stock with shotgun butt and 1/2-magazine, received in warehouse Oct. 13, 1881 and shipped next day to Order #27787. Special order `76s are quite rare and those deluxe rifles with color case hardening are exceptionally rare. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very fine plus. Appears to be all orig; top tang screw is slightly battered & frozen, therefore the stock could not be removed to check for matching assembly numbers; bbl retains 97-98% strong orig blue with only light sharp edge wear and a few tiny scattered nicks; receiver & sideplates retain about all of their orig factory case colors, bright in sheltered areas, lightly to moderately faded elsewhere; hammer also retains about all of its orig case colors, strong & bright on sides & rear edge, moderately faded on top edge; lever retains bright case colors, primarily on left side, faded on outer faces; buttplate retains about 80% thin orig blue; wood is sound with a few minor, very small nicks & scratches & retains about all of its bright piano varnish finish, dulled & showing wear on bottom rear of forearm; checkering shows moderate diamond point wear with hand grease & soil. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore; may have been fired, but if so very little; bolt face retains most of its orig factory blue. 4-44548
Starting Price: $10,000
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BEAUTIFUL DELUXE WINCHESTER MODEL 1876 SPECIAL ORDER LEVER ACTION RIFLE. SN 16769. Cal. 45-60. Fine deluxe rifle with 26" oct bbl, button magazine, half nickel front sight, "1876" marked ladder rear sight and tang sight with 4" staff. Mounted with highly figured flame & shell grain American walnut with "H" style checkered forearm and straight stock with smooth steel buttplate. Receiver is 2nd type with screwed-on dust cover rail and has sgl set trigger. Bbl has usual 2-line address with caliber marking over chamber on top flat and also on the carrier. Accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter identifying this rifle in caliber 45-60 with 26" oct bbl, set trigger, checkered stock with shotgun butt and 1/2-magazine, received in warehouse Oct. 13, 1881 and shipped next day to Order #27787. Special order `76s are quite rare and those deluxe rifles with color case hardening are exceptionally rare. PROVENANCE: Wes Adams Estate Collection. CONDITION: Very fine plus. Appears to be all orig; top tang screw is slightly battered & frozen, therefore the stock could not be removed to check for matching assembly numbers; bbl retains 97-98% strong orig blue with only light sharp edge wear and a few tiny scattered nicks; receiver & sideplates retain about all of their orig factory case colors, bright in sheltered areas, lightly to moderately faded elsewhere; hammer also retains about all of its orig case colors, strong & bright on sides & rear edge, moderately faded on top edge; lever retains bright case colors, primarily on left side, faded on outer faces; buttplate retains about 80% thin orig blue; wood is sound with a few minor, very small nicks & scratches & retains about all of its bright piano varnish finish, dulled & showing wear on bottom rear of forearm; checkering shows moderate diamond point wear with hand grease & soil. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore; may have been fired, but if so very little; bolt face retains most of its orig factory blue. 4-44548
Starting Price: $10,000
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