Can you identify this rifle?

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Delmonico asked me to post this pic because Slim is gone for the weekend. Del's been looking at it and is stumped. Anyone have a clue as to what this rifle is?

Here is the webpage for it:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?psbib:11:./temp/~ammem_8fhn:




AnnieLee

[Old Top]

AnnieLee,

It looks like a savage 85 to me but I will keep looking.

Old Top

[Qball]

Could it posible be a Winchester 1895?
or Browning -95

[Four-Eyed Buck]

It's gonna be tough, the old boy's got  part of the action concealed with his hand.........Buck

[Col. Riddles]

I blew up that portion of the pic quite a bit. He has is thumb on top of the lever with his index finger below the lever & pointing to his right. His other 3 fingers ar supporting the lever. It looks like a 95 but definitely hard to say positively.

[Old Top]

Capt,

No magzine tube, top eject, no loading port and a shnable front piece still looks like a savage to me.

Old Top

[Scattered Thumbs]

It really looks like a Winchester 1895 from where I look.

[Delmonico]

I've looked at it again on 3300 pics and have played with the brightness and contrast and have decided that it is and Mr. Butcher must have mistook a 8 for a 9 in his notes when he cataloged them in about 1915.  1899 would make sense and some of the 95 Wins had Snabel forends.

The link died again, I don't know why they do but try this.


http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html

That is the home page, do the search hunting and it is the 11th picture.  click on it, click on small picture and scroll under the larger one and really kick it up.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Here is the link to the larger pic. http://memory.loc.gov/award/nbhips/lca/101/10140v.jpg
Below is a pic of a 1895 Win. Look at the receivers and the "two piece" levers. I would save most definitely a 1895 Win.

[Forty Rod]

I have to agree.  the Savage is smoother at the rear of the reciever...no hump at all.

This looks like my Winchester 95.

[Old Top]

Slim,

That sure looks as if it is the one he is holding so I stand corrected, need a beter photo base.  Good eyes.

Old Top