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Is This an Authentic & Unmolested 1894 “Spruce Gun?”
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Aleck
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January 24, 2026 - 8:13 pm
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Currently for sale at https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1149964299

30 WCF. Only unusual markings are “J.C.’17” below serial number 838731. Lyman tang sight, ladder rear sight and blade(?) front sight.

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Here’s a discussion regarding the same gun.  Highest condition authentic spruce gun I’ve seen except for that extra hole right smack in the middle of the top tang.

https://winchestercollector.org/forum/winchester-research-surveys/1894-spruce-gun-for-the-survey-13/

Don

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deerhunter said
Here’s a discussion regarding the same gun.  Highest condition authentic spruce gun I’ve seen except for that extra hole right smack in the middle of the top tang.
https://winchestercollector.org/forum/
Don
  

Your link doesn’t go to it

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Doesn’t look like the saddle ring stud is original to the gun 

“If you can’t convince them, confuse them”

President Harry S. Truman

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They were either marked jc 17 on the bottom or on the top of the reciever with US and a flaming bomb typically on either side  of the Winchester proof mark 

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cj57 said

deerhunter said
Here’s a discussion regarding the same gun.  Highest condition authentic spruce gun I’ve seen except for that extra hole right smack in the middle of the top tang.
https://winchestercollector.org/forum/
Don
  

Your link doesn’t go to it
  

Original link is fixed now.

https://winchestercollector.org/forum/winchester-research-surveys/1894-spruce-gun-for-the-survey-13/

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Tedk said
Doesn’t look like the saddle ring stud is original to the gun 
  

Good Eye, and it most likely is not original to that SRC.

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