Exceptional Antique Special Order Winchester Model 1892 Lever Action Rifle
Manufactured in 1897, this Winchester Model 1892 is an exceptionally fine example of a special-order rifle. Like the Model 1873 before it, these rifles and carbines were highly prized in the American West, often chambered in the same cartridges as Colt’s Single Action Army revolver. Frequently used as “working guns” on the frontier, very few early production examples survive in such high condition.
The top of the barrel is marked with the two-line address and caliber at the breech. The upper tang carries the three-line model, trademark, and patent markings, with the serial number on the bottom of the receiver. The rifle is fitted with a set of sporting sights, including a German silver blade front and an elevation-adjustable buckhorn rear, and features a special-ordered “button” magazine. It is mounted with a smooth forearm and straight-grip stock, finished with a crescent buttplate.
Exceptionally fine, retains 85% of the original blue finish showing some thinning in a few areas and edges, 60% plus of the original case colors on the hammer and lever, 50% of the original nitre blue on the loading gate, and a few very small scattered patches of light pitting on the barrel where the blue has thinned slightly. The wood is very fine with some scattered minor handling marks. Mechanically excellent.
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