Manufactured in 1884. The rifle has the Third Style receiver with integral dust cover rail and dust cover with serrated edges and special order half magazine, single set-trigger and highly figured fancy grade stock and forearm. The stock and forearm have Winchester "Style H" checkering and a piano finish. The pistol grip has a horn or ebony inlay. The barrel has a Lyman folding combination globe and post front sight and Lyman folding two-leaf rear sight with bright sight triangle and a leaf with a wide "v" notch. A folding peep sight with fifty minute graduations is mounted on the receiver tang. The crescent buttplate has a sliding brass trapdoor. The top barrel flat has the two-line legend ahead of the rear sight and "CAL. 45-75" behind it. "45-75" is stamped in script numerals on the cartridge elevator. The barrel, dust cover and loading gate are blue, and the magazine tip, forearm cap, receiver, hammer, lever and crescent buttplate are casehardened. The rifle is accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which describes it as: "Rifle, Octagon barrel, Set trigger, Checkered stock with pistol grip, Casehardened" and "1/2 magazine". The letter states that this rifle was shipped from Winchester on January 19, 1886.