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I have a nickel plated 1866. It has a P.S. in slightly smaller letters stamped underneath the serial number. Can anyone tell me what this means?
Darlene
WINCHESTER BABE
I also have a 73, serial number# 1046JA. Can anyone tell me what the JA means?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Darlene
WINCHESTER BABE
Hello Darlene,
I have not ever seen a stadard production Model 1873 with a "JA" serial number suffix. What I can tell you, is that the very early production Model 1873s did not have a letter on the end of the serial number, then in later years, an "A" is found on the end of the serial number, and still later, a "B" was used.
Can you post a clear detailed picture of your Model 1873 serial number?
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
Darlene,
If the 73 is really 1046, that would be a real early gun with some special features. Post pictures of the overall gun so we can see the configuration as well as the closeups of the serial number. I too have never seen a JA suffix. Some of the early script serial numbers can be hard to read too, 7’s look like 1’s.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
I’m about to move a bunch of guns so that I can a good pic of all of these details. Will post shortly. Thanks for your help in advance.
WINCHESTER BABE
Can someone tell me how to upload pics please?
Darlene[/img]
WINCHESTER BABE
You have to upload the photos to a web host like Photobucket. Then resize them so they are not too big, like 600 – 700 pixels wide otherwise it will make the page too wide and you will have to scroll side to side to read a post. Then you put a link to the photo in the post. You put the link on a separate line and hit the Img button to add a code to the beginning, past the link and then hit the Img button again to add the code to the end.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
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