WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. A GOOD .44-40 'MODEL 1873' LEVER-ACTION REPEATING CARBINE, serial no. 91659A, for 1882, with blued round 20in. barrel signed by the maker and with period London proofs, block and blade fore-sight, carbine-style ladder rear-sight, receiver with dust-cover sliding on an integral rail (an area of shallow pitting to front of receiver frame), exposed hammer, saddle-ring to left side, walnut straight hand stock, iron carbine heel-plate with central sliding trap-door, walnut fore-end and full-length magazine tube, some light frosting to metalwork, bore very good and retaining much original finish. S1 - Sold as a Section 1 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act

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