Log In
Members
Home
Add Reply
Add Topic
Offline
Hi
I am starting a survey of Winchester 1873 deluxe engraved short rifles. I have one that shipped in 1896.
Thanks
Walter
Walter,
What are you tracking in your survey?
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Hi Bob
20 inch barrels and type
Cost of engraving
How many are known to survive
Any other notes
Thanks
Walter
Hello Wally,
A bit of advice here from some one who has been surveying Model 1892 rifles for 4 year s now and collected data on about 7000 of them. Go back and search all of the big auction house on line catalogs. Look at RIA, Julia’s, Amoskeag, Poulin, or any Google search result you can come up with. Keep photo files of every rifle you can come across. You will want to look back at them as time goes on to look for errors and new items you wish you cataloged from the start. And expect to spend A LOT of time putting it all together. I probably spend 3 hours a day working on my survey in one way or another.
Good luck
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
Hi Michael
Thanks for the info. I only estimate 50 of these were made. What do you want in your 1892 survey?
Thanks
Walter
Walter,
By deluxe you want pistol grip checkered stock correct?
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Hi Bob
These were straight grip stocks. I think. Any pistol grips would be interesting.
Walter
Walter,
I think your estimate of 50 is a quite low. I did a quick check of the Gordon survey and found 14 engraved 20″ Rifles with deluxe checkered wood (DCW) that survived. Non with pistol grips. There was one with deluxe wood and one that said checkered stock that I didn’t include. Gordons survey was 3847 guns and extrapolating that to 720610 guns I come up with 2623 engraved 20″ rifles with DCW.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
wallyb said
Hi Michael
Thanks for the info. I only estimate 50 of these were made. What do you want in your 1892 survey?
Thanks
Walter
Walter,
You can take a look at his link please:
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=606355
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
Hi Bob
By deluxe I mean fancy checkered wood. Maybe this survey will tell us how many survive.
Walter
Walter
The Gordon survey was surviving guns.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
1873man said
Walter
The Gordon survey was surviving guns.
Bob
It would be extremely difficult to survey the rifles that did not “survive”!!
Maybe even impossible.
Michael
Model 1892 / Model 61 Collector, Research, Valuation
Hi Michael
I as focused on the serial numbers of the known guns. I cannot find the info Bob provided in the Gordon book. Just getting started.
Walter
When you say “short rifles” you mentioned 20″ Are you including 22″ guns? I had a deluxe PG, Half Round years ago. I will find SN if you’re including them. Thanks,
Casey
Walter,
The Survey Gordon did was just summarized in the end of volume 2 of his books. The complete list of all the guns was supplied in a pamphlet that came with the first batch of books. I can post the list that I found.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Hi Bob
That would be great. I do not have that pamphlet with my books.
Thanks
Walter
Walter,
Send me your email address and I can send you a PDF copy.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
Walter,
Here is the list.
- 250193
- 476142
- 476149 question if barrel had been cut
- 476158
- 501638
- 517794 $5.00
- 520991 $2.50
- 524931
- 546580
- 546586
- 549178
- 559540
- 176779
- 176784
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
1 Guest(s)
