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This is a Thank You to Mark & his crew at Wyoming Armory & a special Thank You to Cameron. I had taken the 1895 Winchester in 35WCF that I had acquired & posted on here previously down to have Mark look it over & give me his opinion as to what would be the correct way to preserve this rifle. It had come out of the middle east (Afghanistan) & was well worn. The bluing had been steel wooled off, some rusting & pitting starting, stock incorrectly hand checkered, & had other issues, however it did shoot flawlessly. This rifle was made in 1907 & the thing that kept nagging at me to save it was the large cursive roll stamp on the right side of the receiver stating ” Lyon & Lyon Calcutta” in quotations. There are no other proof marks other than the Winchester one. This tells me that this rifle was shipped by boat directly to Lyon & Lyon in Calcutta India in 1907. This was in the hey days of hunting Bengal Tigers, Lions, Leopards & other dangerous game (think Ghost & the Darkness movie). From talking with the man whom I bought it from he brought it back from Afghanistan around 2004. Who knows how many animals & possibly people this rifle has shot & how many countries that it may have lived in. It was almost closing time the day that I arrived at Wyoming Armory but Mark stayed about 45 minutes past closing to go over the rifle with me bringing out many of his personal 1895’s to show & explain to me what my rifle would have looked like when it was new & the different processes that was required to restore it verses conserving it. I decided that the correct thing to do was to restore it. It came out beautiful & I am very happy with the work that Wyoming Armory did! Now the special Thank You to Cameron involves his time & help getting the rifle moving after the USPS changed the shipping from Priority Mail to Ground when it passed thru Colorado & then it dropped off the tracking site. But with Cameron & his local Post Office’s help was found to be stuck in eastern Washington for about 9 days. My local Post Office was not much help. Thru his lost mail inquires he helped to get it moving & I received it yesterday evening!   Bill