Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2020 : Sale A0320 Lot 773
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS, USA A SCARCE .32 (IDEAL) SINGLE-SHOT TARGET-RIFLE, MODEL 1885 SPECIAL ORDER, serial no. 105475,

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WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS, USA
A SCARCE .32 (IDEAL) SINGLE-SHOT TARGET-RIFLE, MODEL '1885 SPECIAL ORDER', serial no. 105475,
for 1918, with heavy-weight octagonal blued 30in. barrel, dove-tailed 'LYMAN' folding ring fore-sight, buckhorn rear-sight, the top left-hand flat of barrel signed 'MANUFACTURED BY THE WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN CONN. USA PATENTED OCTOBER 7 1879', slab-sided blued falling-block action with central hammer, top-tang fitted with a folding Lyman type vernier peep sight, chequered straight-hand butt-stock, iron crescent heel-plate, blued under-lever, special Winchester double set trigger, chequered walnut splinter fore-end with inlet ebony tip, much finish remaining

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Estimate £1,500-2,500

Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament