GUN FALL 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, October 5, 2015.
LATE WINCHESTER MODEL 1873 SADDLE RING CARBINE. WINCHESTER 1873 702810 38 WCF (38-40) MODERN; C&R Cal. 38 WCF (38-40) Standard grade Carbine with 20" rnd bbl, full magazine, barley-corn front sight and 2000 yard Carbine ladder rear sight. Left side of receiver has staple and ring. Mounted with uncheckered straight grain American walnut with Carbine forearm, 1866 style band and straight stock with Carbine buttplate & trap containing an orig three piece all steel cleaning rod. This Carbine was manufactured in about 1923 as a parts cleanup operation. In the preceding three years Winchester had only manufactured a little over 300 Model 1873 arms and in 1923 records show they manufactured in excess of 18,000 arms. By that time the Model 1873 sales had drastically dwindled due to the advent of much more powerful & accurate bolt action rifles. A large proportion of the lever action arms of that era were sold into Mexico, Central & South America where they usually saw extreme harsh service under tropical conditions, generally with little or no maintenance and are rarely found today with high orig finish. PROVENANCE: The Estate Collection of Phil A. Bleakney, Jr. CONDITION: Extremely fine plus. Bbl, magazine tube and bbl bands retain 98% orig blue with only slight muzzle end wear and some light thinning of sides of bands. Receiver & side plates retain about 95% bright orig blue with some minor, light flaking, more pronounced on left side plate. Hammer retains brilliant case colors and lever brilliant colors on sides, lightly to moderately faded on outer faces. Buttplate retains about 98% orig blue. Wood is sound with a few, very small nicks on the buttstock and retains virtually all of its orig oil finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore, shows very little use. Cleaning rod is fine. 49059-107 JR (6,000-10,000)