Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2016 : Sale A0316 Lot 1104 - S1
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS A .44-40 (WIN) LEVER-ACTION REPEATING RIFLE, MODEL 1873 MUSKET, serial no. 174885B,

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WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS
A .44-40 (WIN) LEVER-ACTION REPEATING RIFLE, MODEL '1873 MUSKET', serial no. 174885B,
third model, manufactured 1884, with a blued round 30in. barrel, block and blade fore-sight, folding ladder rear-sight, the top signed 'WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS, NEW HAVEN, CT KINGS IMPROVEMENT PATENTED MARCH 29 1866, OCTOBER 16 1860', plain blued receiver with sliding dust-cover, top-tang marked 'MODEL 1873', walnut straight hand butt-stock, iron semi-crescent butt-plate with central trap-door containing the original take-down cleaning rod, colour-hardened finger-lever, walnut three-quarter fore-end, three iron barrel-bands and full-length magazine tube, the whole retaining much original finish

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Estimate £1,000-1,500

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