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Has anyone ever seen a factory box for a 1873 (1876)…. cardboard…pasteboard?? There are some nearly as new guns surviving but I never seen a boxed one. I have seen crates. Interestingly I have seen Volcanics in pasteboard boxes, obviously pre-model 1873, so there was such a notion. I have seen boxed 1886s albeit later ones. Well anyway………..
IN GOD WE TRUST
I have never seen one only crates.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
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nanzca said
Give it time, the guy on Gunbroker will probably “find” one.
This is what makes his so rare… “Dad’s guns” were some of the only ones ever delivered from the Winchester factory in a cardboard box. 
Do original Winchester rifle crates (other than dads guns 
) come up for sale very often?
I’d like to have one if not crazy expensive.
Winchester Model 1873 44-40 circa 1886
Kevin Jones said
Do original Winchester rifle crates (other than dads gunsI’d like to have one if not crazy expensive.
You don’t want one. I have purposefully avoided purchasing one, as the number of fraudulent ones exceeds the number of genuine ones several times over! I would probably question if the one I owned, if I did own one, was indeed genuine. When it came time to sell, the seller will likely hold to this extreme scrutiny and it could prove a difficult sell.
If the propensity to create these with the intent to defraud for monetary gain wasn’t so incredibly high, I might be singing a different tune.
I expect you are right and without proof of authenticity (and I can’t image where such proof would come) you have to assume it was a fake.
Winchester Model 1873 44-40 circa 1886
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