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WINCHESTER, OLIVER F. Letter signed ("O.F. Winchester") to Nelson King, Superintendant of the Sharps Rifle Company, New Haven, 12 November 1875. 1 page, 4to, on Winchester Repeating Arms Company stationery with a dramatic panoramic view of the Winchester factory complex, attractively matted with a portrait and glazed (with UV-40 plexiglas) in an oversize giltwood frame with a portrait of Winchester. Unexamined out of frame. RARE.
THE INVENTOR OF THE WINCHESTER REPEATING RIFLE TO THE SHARPS RIFLE SUPERINTENDANT
One gun-maker to his one-time shop superintendant, now employed with another gun manufacturer: "We have used up the castings we had which you refer. We will get out what you want at a small advance if you wish, but cannot tell the exact cost in advance..."
Winchester (1810-1880) took over a small gun factory in the 1850s. The firm prospered with its Henry rifle, very widely used in the Civil War, and with the Winchester Model 1866, which became the favorite rifle of the western settlers and ranchers and was used to terrible effect in the Russo-Turkish War. In 1873 he introduced the Winchester Model 73, a revolutionary center-fire rifle still widely in use. A staunch Republican, Winchester had attended the 1860 convention which nominated Lincoln.
THE INVENTOR OF THE WINCHESTER REPEATING RIFLE TO THE SHARPS RIFLE SUPERINTENDANT
One gun-maker to his one-time shop superintendant, now employed with another gun manufacturer: "We have used up the castings we had which you refer. We will get out what you want at a small advance if you wish, but cannot tell the exact cost in advance..."
Winchester (1810-1880) took over a small gun factory in the 1850s. The firm prospered with its Henry rifle, very widely used in the Civil War, and with the Winchester Model 1866, which became the favorite rifle of the western settlers and ranchers and was used to terrible effect in the Russo-Turkish War. In 1873 he introduced the Winchester Model 73, a revolutionary center-fire rifle still widely in use. A staunch Republican, Winchester had attended the 1860 convention which nominated Lincoln.