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Guys, looking for your thoughts & comments on a 1895 Winchester that I picked up yesterday. It is in 35 WCF, worn checkered shotgun butt, has a beat Browning plastic butt plate, Lyman front sight, 3 leaf rear sight marked at 150, 250, & 350 yards respectably. The action is very smooth & slick to work. Rifle is all in the white with what looks to be small patches of blue or maybe case color on the lever & trigger. The right side of the receiver is engraved “Lyon & Lyon Calcutta”. The bore has shallow rifling & is frosty. This rifle spent its life in India & Iraq where the person that I bought it from bought it & brought it up here around 2005. I plan on keeping the rifle, but in trying to ascertain its value was wondering if its prominence had any effect on value. How do you “grade” a rifle like this? I hope that I didn’t do wrong in buying it. Bill
Bill:
Winchester had a lively market in India as well as Australia and there are quite a few examples of dealer-marked Winchesters that appeal to collectors. Value, as always, depends largely on condition and collector interest. In my opinion, the dealer marking would add approximately 20-25% to the value of an otherwise plain example in the same condition.
You may be interested to look in the Winter 2014 edition of “The Winchester Collector” for an article I wrote entitled “Foreign Dealer-Marked Winchesters”.
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Rick, thank you for the information. I will have to see if the Winter 2014 edition is available to back order. Bill
Bill Yadlosky said
Rick, thank you for the information. I will have to see if the Winter 2014 edition is available to back order. Bill
Or you can view the magazine on this website:
https://winchestercollector.org/magazines/201401/18/
Don
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