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A .44-40 'Model 1873 One Of One Thousand' lever-action rifle by Winchester, no. 25850 (dated 1877) image 1
A .44-40 'Model 1873 One Of One Thousand' lever-action rifle by Winchester, no. 25850 (dated 1877) image 2
A .44-40 'Model 1873 One Of One Thousand' lever-action rifle by Winchester, no. 25850 (dated 1877) image 3
Lot 785S1

A .44-40 'Model 1873 One Of One Thousand' lever-action rifle by Winchester, no. 25850 (dated 1877)

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£30,000 - £40,000

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A .44-40 'Model 1873 One Of One Thousand' lever-action rifle by Winchester, no. 25850 (dated 1877)

The 'First Model' receiver with dust-cover, the left side-plate engraved Robert M. Wright, Dodge City, Kansas 1877, virtually full renewed hardening-colour, top tang with later adjustable folding peep-sight, the chequered and highly-figured XX stock, with butt-plate and trap, forestock cap colour-hardened en suite, the octagonal barrel engraved Winchester's-Repeating Arms. New Haven. CT. King's-Improvement-Patented-March 29.1866. October 16.1860 and One of One Thousand surrounded by bold foliate-scrollwork and with white metal barrel-bands at muzzle and breech end, full-length magazine-tube, with sporting blade foresight and folding adjustable rear-sight
24¼in. barrel, recent Birmingham nitro proof (minimal marks together with certificate)

Footnotes

Provenance
Winchester Repeating Firearms Factory Letter:
Rifle, octagonal barrel, set trigger, checkered stock, casehardened, 1 of 1000, received in the warehouse on March 16 1877, and shipped from warehouse March 16 1877, order number 8568

Restoration
Turnbull Restoration have kindly confirmed that the action and parts were color case hardened in 2009.

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