Kirk Durston said
I tend to have a list of favourite cartridges and then choose the old Winchester to match those cartridges. After 15 years of buying, selling, and trading I eventually saw that there were certain models and configurations that I strongly liked over the others, so I matched the cartridges as follows …

45-70 – Winchester Model 1886 FM, OB, CB (shipped in 1891)

44 W.C.F. – Winchester Model 1892 SRC (currently, but I like this cartridge so much that if I come across a nice 1892 in a rifle version, which is not easy up here in Canada, I’d like to snap it up) (serialized in 1913)

38-55 – Winchester Model 1894 FM, OB, CB (Shipped in 1904)

38-40 – I’m looking for a nice 85% Winchester Model 1892 FM, OB, CB (currently filling in for this caliber is a M****n Model 1889 FM, OB, CB shipped in 1889)

32-20 – Winchester Model 53 (serialized in 1929)

30 W.C.F. – Winchester Model 1894 SRC (serialized in 1913)

There are several other cartridges that I really like, but the above are the highest ranking. If I had my druthers, and a large budget, I’d have Winchesters to match the 45-60, 40-72, and 38-56  

Henry Mero said
Well Kevin I actually started out collecting Marlins back in the late ’60’s and managed to gather up quite a nice bunch of them> I run  into some financial difficulties in the early ’80’s, Thanks to the Hunt Bros., and sold off the collection in order to keep the house and family together. I bought a small collection of Winchester Commemmoratives ,17 pieces , a little later and ended up putting together one complete Winchester mfg’d, commemmorative and two other partial commemmorative collections,450 pieces all together, I ended up selling them all to one person( that was a big cheque). Then I started buying ’94’s and put together a collection , one from each year of manufacture, 113 pieces, from 1894, ser#601 to 2006 ser#6554000. Then I put together a collection of all the pre1900 lever guns in deluxe rifle and s.r.c. from the Henry to the 1895. currently I’m working on building a display including all the pre 1900 lever guns in standard configuration in carbine rifle and musket, it’s proving to be quite a task but I do enjoy the hunt. I’ve had and still have some pretty rare (1 of a kind) ’94’s but My all time favorite is a 14″ or 15″ trapper . I just love them little guns and the way they fit the hand to carry. Seven years ago I had 1450 some Winchesters and Colts but I started selling some off for  retirement I would like to own ’em all lol, but probably won’t accomplish that aim lol.  

Henry, sn 601 cought my eye, sn 603 and 604 reside in a collection out hear in Australia