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It looks like it has a model 90 staff on it.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
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Is the staff height set for point blank range as its pictured?
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
AG said
“There are some that were made so they had the option of adding a stem with a screw in aperture or a B stem with windage, and they probably don’t fold down as far to protect aperture, if in use.”
The stems were always interchangeable, except for differences in height–it wasn’t some kind of special variation. The markings on the base indicate late production, which may account for the “1” added to the letter code, and if this was built as a #1, there’d be no disk/eye cup to “protect.”
AG said
Anyone know the first year Lyman started stamping “Lyman” on their tang sights ?AG
If you’re referring to the base marking on the sight above, that would probably be hard to determine from catalog illustrations, which more often than not continue in use long after they were first printed. The Lyman family sold their company to a conglomerate in 1969 (a sad event!), and a change in ownership often results in changes in the way products are marked. But was the sight still in production as late as 1969? I don’t know, but it seems rather doubtful. It was listed in the 1959 Stoeger’s (using the same illustration from about 50 yrs earlier), but I have no Lyman catalogs, Stoeger’s, etc. later than that date. I’d like to know when production finally ended.
AG said
Thanks for the reply Clarence. My rifle is a high value M1894 with a DOM 1898. I want the tang to be period correct so not sure knowing when Lyman first stamped the Lyman Ct logo would be nice?
The sight you have is not period correct. I do not know for sure when Lyman started marking the bases, but it was no earlier than the late 1920s, and may have been as late as the 1940s.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
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