.38-40. 24" octagonal barrel. SN: 619422B (mfg. ca. 1909). Blued metal finish with octagonal barrel, full length magazine tube, half length handguard, and crescent butt to walnut straight-wrist stock. Lever-action repeating rifle fed by an internal tube magazine and featuring a brass lifter. Sights consist of adjustable rear buckhorn and front blade. Receiver features a dustcover with rail milled from a singular piece. Tang marking reads MODEL 1873/-WINCHESTER-/TRADE MARK. Further marks include Winchester monogram firing proof to forward receiver and rear barrel, Caliber mark reading 38 W.C.F. to the rear barrel and 38 CAL. on lifter. Barrel displays the two-line address and patent marking reading WINCHESTER'S REPEATING ARMS. NEW HAVEN, CONN. U.S.A./KING'S IMPROVEMENT PATENTED MARCH 29, 1866. OCTOBER 16, 1860. Rifle mounts a trapdoor buttplate but stock is void of tools.