OE - GOOD - some minor replacement parts; metal smoothly rusted or lightly pitted in places, cleaned; principal lettering, numerals and design on metal legible; lightly scratched, bruised or minor cracks repaired; in good working order.

NPRF - NON-PROFESSIONALLY REFINISHED/COLD BLUE, ETC.

The factory letter lists this rifle in .45-70 with an octagon barrel and plain trigger and as received in the warehouse on July 1, 1895, and shipped on February 19, 1896, in order 6434. Also includes a handmade canvas rifle sleeve with addresses for Kenneth Wise on the U.S.S. Benevolence at San Francisco, California and Marvin Verhoef in Holland, Michigan. An included write-up by an unidentified author states that Wise captured the weapon and sleeve from a Japanese soldier during WWII and sent it home to his friend in Michigan while he was on the Benevolence recovering from wounds. It also indicates the rifle remained there for 57 years. The document also states that the included sleeve was also taken off of a Japanese soldier killed by Wise when the man tried to shoot Wise with this rifle (stains attributed as blood). Kenneth Wise (1927-2000) is listed as born and buried in Holland, Michigan. His grave lists him as an seaman first class in the Navy and private first class in the Army.