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Anybody check this one out? I can’t wait for the stories on this one. Please don’t mention the case.
Bert – I doubled up on the submit button – hey, I’m old!!! Please erase one of them. Thanks
Whats the item number? or a link to it.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
This may be the one Bob is referring to. It had a bid of $7,500.00 and the reserve was not met so, relisted.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=367960634
Paul
Thanks Paul,
I find that listing lacking a lot of information and pictures. He says he has a letter but does not really state what the letter says. One thing catches my eye about the gun is the checkering looks real deep from what I’m use to seeing.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
BOBR94 said
Bert – I doubled up on the submit button – hey, I’m old!!! Please erase one of them. Thanks
You can delete your own post, with the X button at upper right of your post . Good feature for the double posts, and I also like the Edit feature that allows you to correct embarrassing spelling errors
I don’t have a X in any of my posts, just the quote and edit buttons.
Bob
edit: it just showed up just after I posted this one but its just my last post.
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
I believe that you can delete it yourself if no one has replied to it yet. Once there has been a reply, you can only edit it.
Paul
Your right Paul, the X went away once you posted.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
"You can delete your own post, with the X button at upper right of your post . Good feature for the double posts, and I also like the Edit feature that allows you to correct embarrassing spelling errors[/quote] "
Funny I got the X (delete) option a few minute ago , but tried again and the delete feature is not showing. I have deleted double post before by ckicking the Edit button ,and you had the choice to Edit /or delete but I dont see the delete option right now there either as I just tried?
Looking at the case, it looks like it new. The leather strap holding the receiver in has no wear and the liner is perfect.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
More photos and a copy of the Cody letter added to the GB ad for this rifle. Yes, the case looks brand new but, cases, boxes & crates are not something I pay any attention to.
Paul
Online
Hmmm…
He lists the serial number as 96641, and that serial number is not listed in the ARMAX as having a carved stock. The factory letter only indicates "checkered stocks". While it may have been an oversight by the person who recorded it in the ledger, I have my doubts about it. Bob pointed out the depth of the carving, and I will point out the plain grained walnut. I am not saying that the F-carved stocks are not original, but I have doubts about them.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
It’s checkered with a F checkering patern, not very common but I’ve had a couple in the shop.
Plain wood, fairly uncommon with checkering but not unheard of, what is the issue? Heck, I had one that lettered with a fancy forend and plain buttstock
V/R
Mike
January 26, 2011
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Too early of a gun to have a proofed barrel isn’t it? It does show an R&R in 1915 so maybe it got a new barrel at that time.
~Gary~
I think I might be interested in whether or not the receiver has a proofmark – it shouldn’t, but it might, making the outcome moot but having the proofmark on the barrel certainly advances the re-barrel theory. I would bet that the barrel marking will coincide with the R&R period.
Questions:
Why the R&R – we have no way of knowing but it wasn’t a caliber change.
Was the wood changed with an upgraded pattern at the R&R????
Probably a refin at the R&R also – no way to know
Plain wood with that pattern is quite unusual – Mike – a checkered forearm and a plain buttstock is not THAT unusual but not common either.
Would ask for another photo of the proofmark area – it looks funky but could be just the pic
Would like a pic of the receiver top as well AND the barrel marking(s)
A PRIME example of the recently discussed "story" gun – would any of you pay what the seller has already turned down?
It IS a handsome gun nonetheless.
Bob
Sorry for the confusion, what I meant by fancy forend is 3 X wood & plain buttstock. And it lettered that way. How common is that?
If I remember correctly it was the only one.
When I first saw this gun, it was about a year ago, it was just before I went up for the moose hunt last October. A fellow in Florida was selling it. If I recall correctly, he was asking either $9,000 or $11,000 for the rifle. It was for sale a very long time, but it appears someone else bought it – who is selling it again.
I had my concerns about the F style checkering / carving pattern. Guess that is why I did not buy it. One thing I did notice is that the curvy swirl lines in the spade patterns curl back in the opposite direction as they do in any other photos of F pattern checkering I have looked at in reference material – I.E. in Highly Finished Arms. On this gun, they curl back, in other photos I have seen, they curl forward towards the pointy end of the spade. Sorry if this is not clear, you will likely have to look at a photo to get my point. Maybe artist discretion, I don’t know, but I stayed away from it at that time. The overall checkering pattern looks a bit off as well once you take a good look at the pattern in Highly Finished Arms. Maybe 100% correct, but I have concerns.
Matt
P.S. The original seller I spoke to last Fall who had the gun, has two other 1894s for sale on GI right now. More to discuss:)
http://www.gunsinternational.com/WINCHESTER-1894-TAKE-DOWN-IN-COLLECTOR-CONDITION-WITH-ALL-THE-RIGHT-STUFF-.cfm?gun_id=100378555
Matt
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