Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2018 : Sale A0918 Lot 1116
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS A .38-40 (WIN) LEVER-ACTION SPORTING-RIFLE, MODEL 1873 SHORT-RIFLE, serial no. 200769B,

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WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS
A .38-40 (WIN) LEVER-ACTION SPORTING-RIFLE, MODEL '1873 SHORT-RIFLE', serial no. 200769B,
for 1886, with blued round 20in. barrel, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, twin folding leaf rear-sight with additional standing notch, the top of barrel signed 'WINCHESTER'S REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW-HAVEN CT' and 'KING'S IMPROVEMENT' with patent dates of '1866' and '1860', plain blued slab-sided receiver, blued sliding dust cover and loading gate, top-tang fitted with a period adjustable folding peep-sight, walnut butt-stock with blued iron 'shotgun' heel-plate, colour hardened finger-lever, plain walnut fore-end with iron nose-cap, full-length under barrel magazine, factory sling-swivels, the whole retaining much of its original factory finish and colour

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Estimate £800-1,200  € 888-1,332

S1 - Sold as a Section 1 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act