How much is an original 1873 Winchester rifle worth?

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How much is an original 1873 Winchester rifle worth?

Winchester Model 1873s For Sale. Prices, Appraisals & Auctions

Lot # Estimate / Price Realized
10 Winchester Model 1873 Rifle, Third Model Antique Gun & Historical Book AuctionPrices Realized SOLD: $1,840
243 Winchester Model 1873 Historical Firearm, Antique & Clock AuctionPrices Realized SOLD: $1,800

Can you still buy a Winchester 1873?

The Model 73 is world-renowned as “The Gun that Won the West.” Now you can own the real thing — a genuine Winchester Repeating Arms® Model 73 with an oil-finished walnut stock, classic blued steel crescent buttplate and a 20″ round barrel, just like the original.

How much did an 1873 Winchester cost new?

Originally priced at $50 in 1873, these rifles could be purchased for $19.50 by the end of the century. Winchester also offered a special Model 1873 sporting rifle featuring fancy checkered wood and a pistol grip stock at a price of $35.50.

What are the most valuable Winchester rifles?

RIAC set what was then a world record in April of 2018 for the most expensive single firearm ever sold and it was the Winchester Model 1886 rifle that previously belonged to the captor of Geronimo. The Winchester rifle is still the highest selling Winchester rifle to ever be sold at auction.

What caliber was the original Winchester 1873?

.44-40 cartridge
Model 1873 Still an icon in the modern day, it was manufactured between 1873 and 1923. It was originally chambered for the . 44-40 cartridge, which was the first centrefire cartridge and which became immensely popular.

Which gun won the West?

Colt six-shooter
Probably the most famous of the Old West guns, the Colt six-shooter became renowned as the ‘gun that won the West’. Popular with the military, agents of the law, and with criminals, it was said by a former train robber that ‘a Colt’s forty-five makes all men equal’.

What rifle did the rifleman carry?

1892 Winchester
The rifle used on the set of The Rifleman, an 1892 Winchester caliber . 44-40 carbine with a standard 20-inch barrel, was an historical anachronism, as the show was set in 1881, 12 years before John Browning had designed the rifle.

How much did a Winchester rifle cost in 1860?

A. Uberti Firearms manufactures near exact replicas of the 1860 Henry chambered in . 44-40 Winchester or ….

Henry rifle
Manufacturer New Haven Arms Company
Unit cost $40(equivalent to $1,152 in 2020)
Produced 1860–1866
No. built c. 14,000

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