December 16, 17, & 18, 2025 Firearms & Militaria
Lot #2472:
(C) NICK KUSMIT ENGRAVED AND EMBELLISHED GOLD PLATED WINCHESTER MODEL 90 SLIDE ACTION RIFLE.
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/17/2025
Manufactured in 1918. Features blue finish on the barrel and magazine tube with rifle front and reproduction rear sight with classic serrated walnut slide and upgraded, unnumbered, H-pattern checkered walnut stock. Frame is engraved with broad feathered borders surrounding punchdot and acanthus bordered vignettes on either side. The right vignette features a boar and the left features a buck in a field. Screws are engraved with floral bursts. Engraving is signed "N.K." on left side of frame near the buck's back foot for famed engraver Nick Kusmit, who worked for Winchester and the Winchester custom shop from 1950-1981. CONDITION: Very good, retaining the majority of the applied finishes with freckling throughout most notably on top barrel flat. Stock has a crack in the left side of wrist near back side of frame. Mechanically fine. Bore is bright with minor firing residue and crisp rifling.