Sporting & Collector Firearms Auction #1042

Winchester Second Model 1876 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 5

Manufactured 1881, barrel shortened.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 45-60

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Early Production Engraved New Haven Arms Co. Henry Rifle

Attractive Early Production Engraved New Haven Arms Co. Henry Lever Action Rifle

Lot 7

Serial number dates to 1863. The receiver, upper tang and buttplate tang feature extensive floral scroll engraving with punch dot backgrounds along with scalloped borders. The barrel has the two-line patent date/address marking and blade and folding ladder sights. Matching serial numbers are on the left side of the lower tang, barrel, three receiver tang screws, stock inlet, a buttplate screw and buttplate. The buttstock is fitted with a trapdoor brass buttplate.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 Henry RF

Price Realized:

Colt Large Frame Lightning "Express" Slide Action Rifle

Lot 9

Manufactured 1888.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38-56-255

Price Realized:

Antique Winchester Model 1886 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 10

Manufactured 1895. The included framed factory letter confirms the current configuration as well as receipt at the warehouse on 16 July 1895 and shipment on 24 September 1895 in order number 21411.

Documentation

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38-56 WCF

Price Realized:

Antique Winchester Model 1886 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 13

Manufactured 1887.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 40-65 WCF

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1886 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 14

Manufactured 1889.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38-56 WCF

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Civil War New Haven Arms Company Henry Lever Action Rifle

Lot 15

Receiver manufactured in 1864. Modern replacement barrel with serial number "7135", blade front sight, and folding ladder rear sight graduated to 900 yards. "7135" appears on the left side of the lower tang, stock inlet, and buttplate. Only around 14,000 Henrys were manufactured in 1860-1866, and around half of them are believed to have been used by Union soldiers, mostly purchased by the men themselves, some using reenlistment bonuses. "That damned Yankee rifle that can be loaded on Sunday and fired all week" was one of the most advanced firearms of the war.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 Henry RF

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1886 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 16

Manufactured in 1894.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 45-70

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Lot 18

Second model manufactured in 1880 with a screw affixed dust cover guide rail.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38 WCF

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Lot 21

Manufactured 1889.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 WCF

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Factory Engraved Winchester Model 1873 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 24

Factory letter lists rifle with an octagon barrel, set trigger, nickel plating and engraving when received in the warehouse on July 28, 1886 and shipped the next day. Third model receiver features floral scrollwork on a punch dot background and a stag scene in a circular panel on the left side plate. Flourishes of scrollwork extend to the forend cap (missing a screw), cartridge elevator and buttplate. Barrel is stamped with the two-line address/patent dates marking and recut "44 CAL."(serial number has also been recut). It also has a dovetail blade front sight (bead absent), elevation adjustable rear sight, set trigger, British proofs and trapdoor buttplate (cleaning rod not included). Factory letter lists rifle with an octagon barrel, set trigger, nickel plating and engraving when received in the warehouse on July 28, 1886 and shipped the next day.

Documentation

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 WCF

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1866 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 25

Manufactured 1884.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 RF

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Two Repeating Rifles -A) Marlin Model 1893 Lever Action Takedown Rifle

Lot 26

Two Repeating Rifles

Manufactured after 1906.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 38, 30-30

Price Realized:

Two Antique Winchester Model 1873 Lever Action Long Guns -A) Winchester Model 1873 Rifle

Two Antique Winchester Model 1873 Lever Action Long Guns

Lot 27

Manufactured 1885.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44-40

Price Realized:

Antique Winchester Model 1886 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 34

Manufactured 1891.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38-56 WCF

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1866 Lever Action Saddle Ring Carbine

Lot 35

Manufactured in 1874. Consecutively numbered to the following lot.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 Henry RF

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1866 Lever Action Saddle Ring Carbine

Lot 36

Manufactured in 1874. Consecutively numbered to the previous lot.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 RF

Price Realized:

Game Scene Engraved Winchester Model 1876 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 37

Manufactured in 1882 and late engraved with Ulrich style engraving including a buffalo scene on the left side.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 45-60

Price Realized:

Colt-Burgess Lever Action Rifle

Lot 38

One of 2,556 rifles with an octagon barrel manufactured 1883-85. This is the only lever action firearm made in any quantity in Colt's history

Documentation

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 WCF

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Two Colt Lightning Slide Action Rifles -A) Colt Medium Frame Lightning Rifle

Two Colt Lightning Slide Action Rifles

Lot 39

Manufactured in 1896.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 32-20 WCF, 22 RF

Price Realized:

Whitney-Kennedy Lever Action Rifle

Lot 40

Manufactured c. 1879-1886.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 WCF

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Two American Shotguns -A) Antique Winchester Model 1887 Lever Action Shotgun

Manufactured in 1895. Chamber measured 2 3/4", choke measured modified, and 12 5/8" LOP.

Lot 41

Two American Shotguns

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 12

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Lot 42

Manufactured 1893.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 32 WCF

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Two Antique 10 Gauge Double Barrel Shotguns -A) Colt Model 1883 Shotgun

Two Antique 10 Gauge Double Barrel Shotguns

Lot 44

Manufactured in 1894. Chambers measured 2 7/8" with extractor and 14 1/2" LOP.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 10

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1873 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 45

Manufactured in 1893.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38 WCF

Price Realized:

Colt Medium Frame Lightning Slide Action Saddle Ring Carbine

Lot 46

Manufactured 1891.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44 WCF

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Two American Shotguns -A) Colt 10 Gauge Model 1878 Double Barrel Shotgun

Right trigger broken off and right hammer stuck in cocked position. Chambers measured 2 7/8" with extractor and 13 1/2" LOP.

Lot 47

Two American Shotguns

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 10, 20

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Three Slide Action Rifles -A) Colt Medium Frame Lighting Rifle

Three Slide Action Rifles

Lot 49

Manufactured in 1900. With a braided leather sling.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 32, 44-40, 22 WRF

Price Realized:

Two Winchester Model 1894 Lever Action Rifles -A) Winchester Model 1894 Rifle

Two Winchester Model 1894 Lever Action Rifles

Lot 50

Manufactured in 1900. Empty drilled and tapped holes for a receiver peep sight, and for a tang peep sight.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 30 WCF, 32-40 WCF

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Manufactured in 1894. Chamber measures 3", and 12 1/4" LOP.

Four Winchester Shotguns -A) Winchester 10 Gauge Model 1887 Lever Action Shotgun

Lot Contains 4 Items

Lot 54

Four Winchester Shotguns

Antique

Modern

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 10, 12, 410, 20

Price Realized:

Colt Medium Frame Lightning Slide Action Rifle

Lot 55

Manufactured in 1894

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 32-20 WCF

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Three Antique Double Barrel Centerfire Hammer Shotguns -A) Colt Model 1878 Shotgun

Three Antique Double Barrel Centerfire Hammer Shotguns

Lot 56

Manufactured in 1880. 14 3/8" LOP.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 10, 12, 16

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1873 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 57

Manufactured in 1885.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44-40 WCF

Price Realized:

Winchester Model 1873 Lever Action Rifle

Lot 58

Manufactured in 1893.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 32 WCF

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Lot 62

Manufactured 1885. Barrel shortened. Dust cover absent.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38-40 WCF

Price Realized:

Three Winchester Slide Action Rifles -A) Winchester Model 1890 Rifle

Three Winchester Slide Action Rifles

Lot 66

Manufactured in 1894.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 22 short, 22 S L LR

Price Realized:

Two Winchester Lever Action Rifles -A) Antique Winchester Model 1892 Takedown Rifle

Two Winchester Lever Action Rifles

Lot 67

Manufactured 1897, rear sight absent.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 44 WCF, 25-35 WCF

Price Realized:

Two Winchester Model 1892 Lever Action Long Guns -A) Winchester Model 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine

Two Winchester Model 1892 Lever Action Long Guns

Lot 68

Manufactured in 1916.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 38 WCF, 44 WCF

Price Realized:

Sharps Model 1874 Sporting Rifle with Double Set Triggers

Sharps Model 1874 Single Shot Sporting Rifle with Double Set Triggers

Lot 73

Manufactured c. 1876-1877. Bridgeport addressed barrel marked "CALIBRE 40" and "2 1/4".

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 40 Sharps 2 1/4

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Marlin-Ballard Schuetzen Style Rifle

Marlin-Ballard Single Shot Schuetzen Style Rifle with Winchester Heavy Barrel

Lot 74

Winchester No. 3 barrel with scope blocks.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 22 LR

Price Realized:

Two Sharp Single Shot Rifles -A) Sharps Model 1874 Rifle

Two Sharp Single Shot Rifles

Lot 75

Hartford address. Brown leather sling.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 44, 50-70

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Two Antique Winchester Model 1885 Single Shot Rifles -A) Winchester Model 1885 High Wall Rifle

Two Antique Winchester Model 1885 Single Shot Rifles

Lot 77

Manufactured 1887. Filler block in rear sight slot.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38-55, 22 short

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Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 Falling Block Military Rifle

Lot 78

Manufactured 1878-1881, checkered hardwood pistol grip added to bottom of wrist.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 45-70 WCF

Price Realized:

Marlin Ballard No. 2 Sporting Single Shot Falling Block Rifle

Lot 79

Manufactured 1876-1891.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 38 CF

Price Realized:

Antique Winchester Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle with Scope

Lot 80

Barrel marked "C.C.JOHNSON/THACKERY.O." at left of breech. With Barska 6.5-20x scope.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 223 Rem

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Antique Winchester Model 1885 High Wall Single Shot Rifle

Lot 81

Manufactured 1894.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 32-40 WCF

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Sharps New Model 1863 Metallic Cartridge Conversion Carbine

Sharps New Model 1863 Metallic Cartridge Conversion Saddle Ring Carbine

Lot 84

Manufactured for use in the Civil War and converted after the war, relined with 3-groove rifling.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 50-70 U.S. Govt

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Three Remington Rolling Block Military Rifles -A) State of New York Remington Rolling Block Rifle

Three Remington Rolling Block Military Rifles

Lot 85

Manufactured c. 1872.

Antique

Curio and Relic

Caliber / Gauge: 50-70, 7 mm

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Two Antique American Single Shot Rifles -A) Marlin Ballard No. 4 Rifle

Two Antique American Single Shot Rifles

Lot 86

Manufactured 1876-1891.

Antique

Caliber / Gauge: 32, 22 L

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