Rare Winchester Second Model 1876 Lever Action Musket. in Fairfield, ME

SN 5067. Cal. 45-75. Standard grade musket with 32" rnd bbl, barleycorn front sight and folding leaf musket rear sight graduated to 1,000 yards, missing its slide. Receiver is 2nd type with screwed-on dust cover rail and 3rd type plain dust cover. Mounted with uncheckered, slab-sawed American walnut with full length forearm, 2 bbl bands and straight stock with carbine/musket buttplate. Front band has a saber bayonet stud on right side with a loop on the left side which contains a partially concealed slotted head ramrod. Middle band has a sling loop with corresponding loop in the buttstock. Accompanied by an orig saber bayonet that has 20-1/4" Yataghan blade marked on right ricasso "B" and has a brass feather pattern handle with eagle head pommel and an orig leather & brass scabbard. Also accompanied by a Cody Firearms Museum letter which identifies this musket with "lid (dust cover)", "to A Room", saber bayonet & scabbard, received in warehouse August. 22, 1878 and shipped August. 19, 1882 to Order #32704. Model '76 muskets are generally considered quite rare and are seldom found with an orig bayonet in orig configuration with any amount of orig finish. PROVENANCE