W4385 FACTORY ENGRAVED SILVER PLATED HENRY RIFLE [A]

Description

W4385 FACTORY ENGRAVED SILVER PLATED HENRY RIFLE; 24 inch octagon barrel chambered in 44 RF caliber with a very good bore that has shine and visible rifling. Sights include a square back German silver blade front and a folding ladder rear sight with the 900 yard top notch. Two-line patent barrel address ahead of the rear sight and serial number are sharp and crisp. Barrel and magazine tube are a brown-gray patina. The receiver retains about 70% toned original silver plating and features the classic factory scroll and floral engraving patterns with beaded backgrounds of Samuel J. Hoggson including a running deer on the left side plate. Both sides of the receiver feature Hoggson’s signature large flower blossom. The crisp engraving also extends to the top of the frame and upper tang. Walnut stock has very attractive extra figure with a very fine hairline crack at the upper tang and most of the original varnish remaining. Just a few handling mars but one of the best looking Henry stocks I have seen. Engraved buttplate retains about 30% original silver plating. With sling mounts on the left side of the barrel and stock. The rifle is pictured and identified in R.L. Wilson’s “The Book of Winchester Engraving” on page viii where the embellishment is noted as an example of the “standard engraving style.” This attractive Civil War era factory engraved Henry rifle was manufactured in 1864.

ANTIQUE   $ 85,000.