GUN FALL 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, October 5, 2015.
RARE WINCHESTER MODEL 1879 CLASS A DAMASCUS DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN. WINCHESTER 1879 1034 10 GA Cal. 10 ga. Beautiful and rare Winchester shotgun with 30" brown Damascus bbls that have concave rib & single silver bead. Rib is engraved with the Winchester name & address and "(Class A)". Bottom of bbls are marked "NOT FOR BALL". Mounted with highly figured, center crotch, flame grain walnut with checkered splinter forearm and rnd knob buttstock with smooth steel buttplate. Receiver & lockplates are beautifully engraved with small oval vignettes on the tail of the lockplates consisting of partridges on the left side and pheasants on the right side all surrounded by tight English scrolls. Receiver, hammers, opening lever, trigger plate and trigger guard are engraved to match. Lockplates are engraved "WINCHESTER REPEATING / ARMS Co / Class A". Matching engraving patterns extend about 3/4" up the rib with border patterns around the breech ends of bbls. Buttplate is engraved with matching patterns and rosettes around the screw holes. It is generally reported that there may have been as many as 10000 of these shotguns sold by Winchester 1879-1884. They were produced in 5 grades, 10 & 12 ga and 30 & 32" bbls. Winchester apparently contracted for these shotguns with a variety of English gunmakers. The Class A guns, represented here are the 2nd highest grade. CONDITION: Extremely fine (no disassembly was effected to check for matching numbers). Bbls retain 95-98% strong, orig brown Damascus pattern, a little thin over the forearm area. Receiver, lockplates & hammers retain virtually all of their strong, orig, English style case colors. Trigger guard is a brown patina. Buttplate retains about 95-96% bright fire blue with a casting flaw and forged repair by the top screw hole. Mechanics are crisp. Bright shiny bores. 48568-7 JR (4,500-7,500)