Manufactured in 1886. Third Model with integral dust cover rail, which features a blade front and two folding ladder rear sights. The top barrel flat is marked with the two line address/King's improvement patent dates ahead of the rear sight and "CAL 45-60" at the breech. The bottom of the brass cartridge elevator is marked "45-60" and the serial number appears on the lower tang. Blue finish with casehardened hammer, lever and buttplate, and mounted with a smooth forearm with steel end cap and straight grip stock with a steel crescent buttplate with compartment containing a four piece cleaning rod. The accompanying Cody letter verifies the rifle configuration, caliber, octagon barrel, plain trigger, that it was received in the warehouse on July 31, 1886 and shipped from the warehouse on order number 8791 on August 7, 1886.

Professionally restored with 95% blue finish remaining showing scattered speckled flaking and thinning on the dust cover. The revarnished wood remains very fine with only a few minor dings and handling marks. The markings are clear. The action is fine.