Beschreibung:

AN HISTORIC DELUXE FACTORY ENGRAVED PRESENTATION .44 WHITNEY-KENNEDY LEVER ACTION RIFLE, NO. I 587, CIRCA 1883 Tapered octagonal barrel, engraved at breech with scrolls surrounding the marking 44 CAL. , barrel also marked WHITNEYVILLE ARMORY, CT. U.S.A. , German-silver fore-sight and standard adjustable rear sight, frame with eleborate factory engraved presentation, Capt. E.E. Stubbs/Champion Rifle wing shot of the World on one side, and Whitney Arms Co./New Haven/Conn. on the other, dust cover engraved with large S , nickel plated loading gate, standard lever, double set triggers, deluxe checkered figured walnut fore-end and butt stock, butt plate and fore-end cap engraved en suite 24 inch (61 cm.) barrel Dark patina overall, wear to wood with losses to fore-end, repaired lever. Captain Elmer E. Stubbs, guide, scout, Indian fighter. Presented with Winchester Model 1873 and Whitney-Kennedy rifles, Stubbs is known to have been a seriously good shot. When using a Whitney-Kennedy rifles on November 25, 1883, he is recorded as hitting 993 of 1000 glass ball targets thrown from a Bogardus machine. A contemporary of A. H. Bogardus, Dr. W. H. "Doc" Carver, Stubbs issued several shooting challenges that either went unanswered or the stakes were too high. Seven Whitney-Kennedys are known to have been owned by Stubbs, six were of .44-40 calibre, one in .38-40. Of these, only three were engraved Champion Rifle Shot of the World or Champion Rifle wing shot of the World . For a similarly engraved Whitney-Kennedy (engraved presentation in block letters) [serial no. 934] see Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American Legend by R.L. Wilson. In the text is mentioned a serial number 1586 - this may in fact be serial number I 586.