If you were the high bidder on lot 1116 at Poulin Auction Company please contact me at mjpetrov@acsalaska.net.

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WOW!
Just color me envious, Joe

Very Germanic looking, to me. Carving, forend key, butt shape and checkering, sling, barrel...
Great rifle, too bad about the cartridge.

What is the purpose of the screw through the serial number? A takedown of some kind?

I have one done the same way, I suspect it was for a takedown.

It is definitely Germanic looking but the proportions look odd even so. Very very heavy butt stock and then everything in front of the receiver looks spindly in comparison. I wonder how it balances in the hand?

I wonder if the proportions are screwed up by the photography somehow?

looks like a Lyman 144 on the tang

Maybe a dealer bought it and we will see it for sale in the near future.

I hope someone did not buy it for the engraved action and takes it apart to "Restore".

I'm not sure if I should say anything about the rifle at this point or just wait and see.

Certainly, I would be curious about what is interesting about that particular rifle. Why should you NOT say something? Honest opinion and knowledge is always interesting and justifiable.

The checkering/carving looks pretty unique yet familiar. The rest of the rifle is a bit "off" to me, but then we all know that is just me.

I rather like it, but as stated earlier the caliber would have been the deal breaker.

.25 Stevens? Is that the 25 Stevens Rimfire? Or is it the .25-20 Single Shot? Sometimes that is called the 25 Stevens. Sometimes the 25-21 and 25-25 are also listed as 25 Stevens.

I guess I would reconsider were that the case. Moot point though at this point.

Mike,
You might have made the contact @ 24 hour..
Good Luck!

Mike, Thanks, I've had a couple PM's with him so hope it works out. If I have this figured out correctly over 900 people have viewed my post on seven forums.

As a last resort I'll drop a note to the auction company. Sometime this works, other times not so much.

One time a large well known auction company had a Niedner rifle for sale. I recognized the rifle and as a matter of fact I had (still have) a pile of letters between Niedner and the owner discussing this rifle. I asked that they contact the owner, they told be they would be happy to auction off the letters. I still have the letters and the owner does not have the history. (it's a smooth-bore 1886 Winchester)

I've also had a good experience, I wrote a letter to the company that auctioned the John Amber estate and asked them to forward a letter to the man who bought the Stewart Edward White rifle. They did, we became friends and twenty some years later I bought the rifle.

I've done all I know how to do finding the new owner and have come up with nothing.

The short answer is it was a .25-21 by Fred Adolph and pictured in one of Whelen books.

At this time I just don't know if it was Whelen's or not, he did write about shooting a .25-21.

The rifle has a new buttstock that looks a lot like that guy from Dowagiac.

Without a new owner that I might ask questions of that's about as far as I can go.