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Lot 197

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$1,500 - 2,500
Price Realized
$7,800
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Winchester 4th Model 1866 Rifle

.44 Henry. 24" octagonal barrel with full-length magazine. SN: 152560. Manufactured circa 1880. Blued finish, color casehardened lever and hammer, brass receiver, smooth walnut straight gripped stock with crescent steel buttplate, smooth walnut forend with steel forend cap. Two line barrel address reads "WINCHESTER'S-REPEATING ARMS NEW HAVEN CT./KING'S-IMPROVEMENT-PATENTED-MARCH 29, 1866. OCTOBER 16, 1860". Italics serial number on triggerguard tang. Buckhorn rear sight is an incorrect replacement, dovetailed German silver front sight blade on steel base. Stock with numerous old square shank tack holes around the periphery of the buttplate, two brass tacks still present in forend, behind steel cap. Butt trap void of cleaning rods. A well worn and salty example of an apparently real frontier and potentially Native American used "Yellow Boy".


This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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