In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Winchester 1873 1888 Manufacture ORIGINAL FINISH half mag Factory Letter!
Locust Fork
Member Posts: 31,994 ✭✭✭✭
Another one for you guys!
LOCUST FORK CURRENT AUCTIONS: https://www.gunbroker.com/All/search?Sort=13&IncludeSellers=618902&PageSize=48 Listings added every Thursday! We do consignments, contact us at mckaygunsales@gmail.com
Comments
Dang, 1212.00 and I'm outbid already!!!!!! and it is only a few numbers off my .32.
Very nice Kasey!
Nice!! Has the barrel been cut off? The barrel appears to have been just bucked off square with no chamfering or crowning. Is that how they made those old guns?
The only way to know really is if the letter stated the bbl length. The sight looks too "correct" for me to think it has been cut down. This one is in such good shape I can't imagine that they cut the barrel down....you only see that sort of thing on guns that are in need of major "fixing up" typically. Plus, that front sight looks like its original and not something they've cut and added to the gun. The half mag guns have all been shorter barrels that have come through here. I am no expert....but I think its original. I know the finish untouched for sure.
The last '73 I looked at in person was not nearly as nice as that and sold for ~$4k. I think you'll do well.
I think all Winchester's barrels at that time were cut flat. They were plugged when they were blued. The end of the barrel remains in the white. A good indicator whether a gun has been re-blued or not. That looks like a very nice 73.
Very Beautiful 😍....
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
Very very nice
It's a shame Bert isn't still around. I miss that guy.
Rifle barrels were cut square and not blued/browned. Carbine barrel ends were rounded.