Value on Winchester 1873 and 1894 rifles

Candrews86 · Apr 13, 2016

Hi,
I need some help on valuing these guns. I believe they are all original, fully functional, and unaltered. The picture with all three rifles together, top one is a 1873 44 wcf, middle is a 1894 32-40, bottom gun is a 1873 44 wcf. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

mmaher94087 · Apr 13, 2016

I hope someone will chime in. I have a '73 in nice shape and wondered the same thing.

Bill Bates · Apr 13, 2016

You need to put theses in the hands of a reputable Winchester collector to get a real value. Know the Winchester market is a bit soft right now. Photos are nice but not good enough to even begin to get you a ball park value. I tell people all the time. "the ball park value on these is pretty huge and wide. Without the gun in hand and maybe with a letter value is just going to be a guess and not a good guess."

30-30remchester · Apr 13, 2016

A lot of factors come into the value of anything. Winchester 1894's in rifle form and unusual caliber should bring $1500 or more. Winchester 1873's are a collectors dream. The 44 WCF chambering's are a bonus. The bottom rifle, if correct and not a cut down, is a more valuable rifle. It is a rifle not a carbine. If it was that short when it left the factory then it is a rarer short rifle. Both 1873's are worth a letter from the Cody Museum.

Kinman · Apr 13, 2016

You get a good idea of their worth by contacting the Lever Action Shooters website. They have been very helpful to me while working on my '86 and '92.
Your rifles look great in the pictures and I have to agree that without a letter or any accurate history Winchesters are very hard to figure out. As it turns out for me both of mine were rebarreled by Winchester, which was fairly common back in the day. The guys on the LAS forum schooled me on alot of stuff through pics alone without having the rifle in hand, valuable rifles such as yours should be accurately handled, you'll be a lot better off in the long run even if you have to send them off. I found that in my case just by having a side mounted sight installed knocked almost a grand off my cherry model '92.

mauser9 · Apr 14, 2016

Agree with all of above. Sure are awesome and highly collectible I would suspect. Hope the short barrel is factory. Would love to have an original 1873. Thanks for the pics.

ky wonder · Apr 14, 2016

as posted above it all depends on the gun and its condition

at a gun show in cave city ky a week ago I sold a 1889 made 1873 Winchester sporting rifle in 22 short. this gun had sold back in 2002 in tombstone Az.( had the receipt with the gun from that purchaser) for $1600,

I had traded for the gun last year, but had to relay to the guy that his rifle was not correct, it was assembled from a 32-20 frame a 22 short barrel, and side plates, and a brass follower from a 44-40, and no magazine tube, still I was able to get $1000 for it as a parts gun to a Winchester collector,

I also sold a nice 1897 Winchester model 1894 sporting rifle with octagon barrel, that was all original but with and old reblue, actually a decent gun for $750 to the same collector.

from what I see in your photos your guns could be very legit and as stated above worth a letter from cody on the short rifle at least.

https://centerofthewest.org/explore/firearms/firearms-records/

the last short rifle I sold was several years back in a 38-40 model 92 and it sold for a goodly amount, so again get in contact with the folks at cody and get at least a yellow sheet if not the complete letter

the yellow sheet is the form where they look up the gun and covers all the pertinent info on that serial number, but not an official typed out letter, or at least they used to do that I have not been a member now for several years

boykinlp · Apr 14, 2016

WORTHLESS!! Send them to me at once for proper disposal!

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