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THE EARLIEST KNOWN WINCHESTER MODEL 1873 FIRST MODEL, 1ST VARIATION SADDLERING CARBINE
There were only 350 of these made with the Model 1873 marking on the lower tang and this is the earliest surviving specimen: serial #47 of a total of 6 SRC 1st Model variations that have surfaced in recent years. Overall gun is in exc+ cond having been restored a long time ago. Since then, it's starting to tone somewhat on the receiver; it looks like orig blue starting to turn brown. Clean, crisp, sharp gun with the correct raised thumbprint dustcover. Carbine style stocks are in VG+ cond with a few light handling mars and dings; carbine style buttplate. This gun is frequently mentioned in the Jim Gordon Model 1873 book; the details he goes into are kind of interesting. I owned the gun about 25 years ago and just recently had the opportunity to take it back in trade. A fine specimen; earliest known 73 carbine.
Sold by Merz in 2005, and again in 2010.
THE EARLIEST KNOWN WINCHESTER MODEL 1873 FIRST MODEL, 1ST VARIATION SADDLERING CARBINE
There were only 350 of these made with the Model 1873 marking on the lower tang and this is the earliest surviving specimen: serial #47 of a total of 6 SRC 1st Model variations that have surfaced in recent years. Overall gun is in exc+ cond having been restored a long time ago. Since then, it's starting to tone somewhat on the receiver; it looks like orig blue starting to turn brown. Clean, crisp, sharp gun with the correct raised thumbprint dustcover. Carbine style stocks are in VG+ cond with a few light handling mars and dings; carbine style buttplate. This gun is frequently mentioned in the Jim Gordon Model 1873 book; the details he goes into are kind of interesting. I owned the gun about 25 years ago and just recently had the opportunity to take it back in trade. A fine specimen; earliest known 73 carbine.
Sold by Merz in 2005, and again in 2010.
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