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Lot 222

A .44 Rim-Fire Winchester 1866 Third Model 'Yellow Boy' Repeating Carbine
No. 689, Circa 1870

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A .44 Rim-Fire Winchester 1866 Third Model 'Yellow Boy' Repeating Carbine
No. 689, Circa 1870

With round russet sighted barrel retained by two barrel bands and stamped with maker's details and patent dates in front the of pierced folding back-sight stamped from '1' to '5' hundred yards, tubular magazine beneath, brass action and elevator-block engraved with contemporary foliate scrollwork, the former involving a stag's head on one side and with a perched eagle on the other, lever and saddle-rig, the former with threaded catch, figured butt and fore-end (both with old bruising), curved brass butt-plate engraved on the heel tang, and with circular butt-trap aperture with sliding cover opening to reveal its threaded three-piece cleaning rod (some wear and rust patination)
50.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The engraved decoration is almost certainly by the famous Louis D. Nimschke

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