
varifleman
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August 20, 2014

Here for your viewing pleasure is Winchester-Lee Model 1895 6mm Navy Rifle serial number 18003 with bayonet and scabbard. It was part of the second US Navy contract (serial numbers 15001-20000) inspected by Lt John N. Jordan (J.N.J as stamped on breech). Per the Winchester Repeating Fire Arms letter the serial number was applied to the on July 22, 1898; Caliber: N; received in warehouse on August 12, 1898 and shipped from warehouse on August 20, 1898; Order number 2689. It just missed the Spanish-American War but may have served during the Relief of the Foreign Legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 or during the Philippine Insurrection 1899-1902. I’ll have to see if I can track down the USN or USMC ship/unit which eventually received this rifle.

Sharps50-140
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January 3, 2010

Cool rifle, lots of history. I picked up one of these at a gun show in Alaska for 100.00 a few years back. The serial #showed it to be one of the ones salvaged and reconditioned from the USS Maine. That’s the good news. The bad news is somebody had cut six inches off the barrel. poop
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