First year production Deluxe Winchester Model 1894 Sporting Rifle with Cody Firearms Museum letter. The numerous special order features on this rifle include 26-inch full octagon barrel, half magazine, casehardened receiver, fancy grain walnut forearm and pistol grip stock, Style H checkering and Lyman folding Beach type front sight with ivory bead. The stock pistol grip has a black hard rubber pistol grip cap embossed "WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO.". The barrel, bolt and loading gate are blue. The forearm cap, receiver, hammer, lever and crescent buttplate are casehardened. The highly figured fancy grain walnut stock and forearm have a high polish piano finish. The top of the barrel is roll-stamped with the two-line legend "- MANUFACTURED BY THE-/-WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN. CONN. U.S.A." ahead of the rear sight. The caliber designation, "38-55" is stamped on the top barrel flat at the breech. The serial number, "832" is stamped across the front edge of the receiver bottom.

Excellent. The rifle is all original and retains nearly 95% of the original blue finish. The barrel has nearly all of the blue finish intact and the markings are crisp. The bolt, loading gate, rear sight and tang sight retain nearly all of the bright blue finish. The case colors on the forearm cap and receiver remain 85% intact and have traces of silvering on contact points and there is some very minor age spotting on the right side of the receiver. The stock and forearm are both excellent and retains 95% of the high polish piano finish with only a few scattered and very minor handling marks. This is an outstanding example of a very early production casehardened frame Winchester Deluxe Model 1894 Lever Action rifle with many special order features. It would be hard to improve on this exceptional Model 1894 rifle.