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WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS, USA
A FINE .45-75 (WIN) LEVER-ACTION REPEATING SHORT-RIFLE, MODEL'1876', serial no. 37751,
for 1883, with round 22in. blued barrel, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight, the top of barrel signed 'WINCHESTER'S REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW-HAVEN CT' and 'KING'S IMPROVEMENT' with patent dates to '1860', London period proofs, plain slab-sided receiver, sliding dust cover, top-tang fitted with a period adjustable 'LYMAN' peep-sight, walnut butt-stock with iron shotgun heel-plate, colour hardened finger-lever (virtually full colour remaining), plain walnut fore-end with iron nose-cap, full-length under barrel magazine, the whole retaining the majority of its factory finish but with some large areas of finish loss and surface corrosion, mainly to the left hand side
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Estimate £3,000-5,000 € 3,329-5,548
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament