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I haven’t posted in years…been awhile since I bought anything worthy of posting here, but as luck would have it, I stumbled across a neat rifle an had to have it.

I’m pretty clueless on it, so would love any insight.

It started life as a Winchester 1885 low wall, 99,xxx serial from 1905 and was redone at some point with a 25” bull barrel chambered in 22 Hornet and marked “C. Moulthrop”, custom engraved in the manner of some Winchester patterns, and restocked with fancy walnut with rosewood. It has an early 50s Unertl 10x scope. It has an interesting Buffalo mark on the receiver and 17.

I removed the fore end and butt plate and there aren’t any signatures and looped the engraving and don’t see any initials.

My research hasn’t yielded anything on Moulthrop and I don’t know enough about engraving or custom guns to make any meaningful gains on learning more.

Appreciate the insight!











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