Discovered After 90 Years | The Marshfield Find
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Produced in 1886, shipped in 1887, stowed away for nearly 90 years, and kept in the family for half a century more, this Winchester 1886 has quite the tale to tell.
Uncovered in the 1970s by the grandchildren of the original buyer, this miraculously mint Winchester had remained in its original crate and scabbard, untouched, with boxes of original ammunition. It's the type of lever action collectors dream of.
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Loved the story and reminded me of what I found last year in my grandfather's kitchen closet. It was a Winchester model 70 300 Win mag pre 64 rifle that he bought the day he left fort hood Texas after being a sniper in the military. Came home and put it in the pantry till i found it in 2023 before he died. The he told me that I could have the rest of his collection. That I didn't even know that he had. All the way down to his first cork fired plastic rifle. There's always great stories out there.
Nice story, Thanks for sharing
Don’t you dare sell a thing those are heirlooms in this country.
Thanks for posting this. I am most amazed that it was kept in an attic not far from salt water and it remains immaculate.
Refinished.
One would think that the leather would have attracted moisture and rusted the metal. As they say, "don't store your gun in a holster."
It was in the original shipping container, thats why it remained in the condition it is. Protected from the elements.
@@chrisw422 I dont know take a look at the ammo box labels. they look like they are worn pretty badly.
What was the highest bid on it... that's what we'd like to know .
Had I found that rifle, the world would have never known of it!
Dude ..... Ya know how many Gun Bunnies you could notch on your headboard showing this off!
20 years ago, I'd have said the same thing. Now that I'm an old man, I have come to realize that we really don't own anything we can keep forever. We're just caretakers for a short period of time. Just like the original owner couldn't keep it forever, none of us can. A museum is where belongs, along with it's story. The memories from that can be kept forever. Sorry for being so wordy..😊
@@jamesf4405As an old fart myself, I wholeheartedly agree with you. She belongs in a museum, where her story in its entirety can be enjoyed for another hundred something years.
Hey Elon, how about buying this piece of American History and donating it to an appropriate museum? Elon reads all my texts, you see, and I know he has more than a passing knowledge of firearms. Unlike the other 2 Tech Rich Guys! 😃
Agreed
@@jamesf4405agree
My buddy has a 50-110 Express takedown. It is in the original shipping box also Walnut with velvet one box of shells a Target shot from the factory. It is immaculate his great-grandpa bought it for Buffalo he shot three shells in it one to kill the Buffalo two sight the gun in. I know it's very rare I don't think Bill would ever sell it. Got authentic paperwork I do believe it's maybe one of a thousand. I've only seen the gun once. His Grandfather shot the Buffalo I think in Day County South Dakota. I think it was in the late 1880s could have been as late as 1891. But it also had beautiful pantina and a low digit serial number. Thank you for showing such a wonderful part of our history
The 50-110 express was introduced in 1899. Buffalo were just about wiped out by 1883.
Wow! I remember learning to handload 45-70 for Dad’s low serial number 1886, but looking at this gun, it’s hard to believe it’s not a modern replica. It is so perfect! What a wonderful piece of history!
Reminds of a Winchester, I picked out of what looked like a couple of hundred lever actions. A gun shop had bought a Winchester collection from a widow in Kansas. The rifle you are showing looks just the one I picked. It was weather worn but no real damage. Weighed at least 9 pounds. No idea the caliber. The gun dealer was busy tagging these rifles with prices. I asked how much for the one I was holding. " $ 35.00" was his answer. Being an E3 in the Air force....didn't have the money. He priced most of the rifles for $35.00...This was 1967 in Topeka Kansas
And nowadays you have $35.00.
I know how you feel.
My late father had a saying for things like this.“If and butts peanuts and nuts, we all have a merry Christmas“. you’re not alone in that category. I passed up a lot of good stuff.
Museum grade. Hope to see it in Cody. What a story.
Yeah my biggest concern is a foreign purchaser will buy it and it'll end up in Russia or Saudi Arabia or somewhere like that.
Odds are.. or Chinese investor.
@@bch5513😳
To have the wooden crate, the packaging, the boxes of rounds and the history of this iconic firearm tells our American 🇺🇸 history surrounding this Gun. It’s not just a rifle, it’s our way of life for survival in harsh environments from feeding your family to defending yourself and your home from predators and attackers such as Indians and more. It’s a history lesson from our ancestors and early settlers whom actually started and built America 🇺🇸. This rifle is a symbol of how our country was founded.
Great story! Great video! Rifles like this built the USA. It's wonderful.
Finding something amazing like that is something I would love to experience!
That case hardening is gorgeous they sure don't make em like that anymore
Doug Turnbull does.
Mine looks like that.
And to think, that was the cheap way to do things back then, no we reproduce "cheap" to make it look expensive
@@gb-bp1me You stole my words!
They do
Thank you for the video that is the most Immaculate 1886 Winchester I've ever seen
I would hope a museum would purchase this beautiful piece.
Your looking at a minimum of probably $1 million at auction. So highly unlikely.
Unless Olin / Winchester buys it themselves and places it in their factory museum.
I bought two guns in my lifetime that I wish I hadn't sold. One was a Browning semi-auto shotgun in a hard case with two barrels One was a 30 inch full choke, the other was 28 inch Modified. It was made before interchangeable chokes. It looked new and I couldn't bring myself to risk scratching it by taking it hunting, which is what I bought it for. So, I sold it. The other was the sweetest little .410 side by side that was also in pristine condition. Times got rough and I had to sell it.
Been there. I had two E- Types that I sold way before they started scratching around upwards of $200,000 each. They were beauties, too! Let me know if you invent a time machine!
Been there before also, we do what we have to do.
@@robertscheinost179Man, I been trying to get to plans for building that time machine forever, let me know if you find the plans first! Thanks
@@chrisw422 Will do, Sir!
@@chrisw422 As much as it hurts, when you are between a rock and a hard place one must get out of the squeeze with the least pain. It's not an easy decision.
This video gave me an anxiety attack...I've never seen an '86 in this condition and completion. That song comes to mind... "If I had a million dollars" I'd bid every cent on the Marshfield find :)
yea and you would come up short,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Price is estimated at 150-275 so you can afford it
@@AI-Bundy We'll see, but I thought it would surely go for more than that.
@@hercules1073 sold for 300k
Good Lord!!! If that isn't a ONCE IN A LIFETIME FIND, I give up!!! That Winchester is so perfect, it could have come off the assembly line the day before yesterday and shipped yesterday morning! I've seen some very rare beautiful firearms in various museums, but I agree with your staff: "I've NEVER SEEN such a magnificiently complete time capsule; Original shipping box, period newspaper filler, original cartridges in their original boxes, the artistically beautiful original scabbard!" Unbelievable!!! I envy the collector who ends-up with that Winchester in his or her collection. I'm curious, what is the reserve on that piece, $250,000.00? Wow!
What a gorgeous rifle.
What an amazing find.
A bit over a decade ago I found myself in a small shop in Portland Oregon, chatting with the owner. In a short while we discovered a mutual interest in older weapons, and when he asked if I’d like see his “small” collection in the back room I didn’t need to be asked twice!
To my astonishment, this was a large room filled with cases of firearms and walls filled with the same.
I found myself gazing up at three 1866 Winchesters for a minute then turned to my host ~~ to my inquiring look he answer “Yup, those are original…….and they are unfired. Bought those as a young feller for $25 apiece from an old shop owner that had found them still in the shipping case in his forgotten stock”.
I could scarcely breathe.
That in Portland shop closed recently, and have wonder came of them.
Probably sold in a buy back program and melted down.
Gahlee.... what an awesome story and gorgeous firearm.... theres no way i could let go of something like this that was in the family so long.
Such a beautiful piece of history. This will never be surpassed.
It will be most interesting to see where this goes. The color-burst around the action screw on the left side is simply amazing.
That is something I noticed too.
Leather draws the moisture from the air ,I am surprised it didn't get rusted! Like never leave a knife in a sheath.
My state of Connecticut used to make really beautiful guns.
What a story/history! Amazing! And sold one year after John M. Browning patented the 1886 and sold it to Winchester. JMB was the greatest gun designer in history.
Simply amazing!
There’s no way I would have ever sold this family heirloom. The history around this firearm is part of all we Americans. Absolutely a work of art.
Beautiful
That is truly amazing
Great episode, you Sir are an excellent story teller
I find it quite tragic that the original family did not maintain possession of this fine rifle.
I am also rather happy to have been able to see it and hear of it's history. So for that bit of the telling, I thank you.
That’s a beautiful piece of American history right there! 🇺🇸
Thank you for sharing this !
The news paper in the box!
Mind boggling account told beautifully here. Thanks for sharing the amazing Marshfield Find.
OMG Loved the story and Great video!
Wherever it goes I hope it is displayed for others to see.
All I can say is 'Wow'!! The narrator seemed to me to be a little emotional about it. Can't blame him.
If that rifle had been kept in that leather case in Southeast Texas for that long, it would be almost certainly, completely ruined. The humidity would've taken that beautiful finish to task.
Та наебалово чистой воды. Я не пойму, вы что сами не видите????😂
Luke is 100% correct. That was my first thought when he said it was stored in the scabbard.
@@pauldulaney35 Yeah, even if it was the desert Southwest, being stored in leather should have left some kind of marks. That seems weird it has none from Massachusetts.
@@brianquinn4528 if you watch the video and read the listing on the website, you will notice they are very careful with the explanation. While praising the rifle as a "time capsule," they never claim the rifle is all original. They do make the "original" claim regarding the scabbard and shipping crate. This is a beautiful rifle and I'd love to see it up close, but I remain very suspicious.
@@pauldulaney35 I don't trust it...too pretty too perfect.
Absolutely Fascinating And Mind Blowingly AWESOME 🤠👍🏽💯
Iv got to know more about this gun and more about what all the writing says on box and scabert this is the coolest gun story Iv ever heard of it is amazing it should be in a museum with the box to show an example of how winchester did everything when sending a gun to somebody I wish I had the money to buy this thing it’s a once in a lifetime find
"It's amazing what's out there. It's what we live for in this business. The treasure in the attic." Very true. What other treasures are hidden?
Back in the 1990's coworker of mine who had to leave his railroad job because it ceased to be, told of how when they broke up the railroad and got into forgotten corners
of the warehouses in the huge maintenance yards within Chicago an old obsolete wooden boxcar was found intact just left behind.
Inside that boxcar were several crates of lever action rifles (Not Winchesters) fresh from the factory. As best as could be determined, the rifles had been acquired by railroad
security in the 1800's for use by strike breakers. The guns were parceled out amongst the executives of the railroad and the company dismantling the railroad.
Your coworker talked too much, He could have had a bingo to add for his retirement. a several case bingo!
Incredible story
Still got my grandpa's 30/30 that he fixed the stock on it with a square bolt. 1893. He left home 1923 at the the age of ten and found it in an abandoned cabin..
This thing is beautiful. If I was a millionaire it would be mine. I'm in love with it.
Winchester checked the numbers and said they shipped it to the wrong guy and it was supposed to go to my Great Grandfather. He willed his belongings to me...... I'm waiting for the day that Colonel Custer's Remington Rolling Block turns up!
🤣
13:06 Repeating the marshfield find is overselling and kind of like a infomercial.
It IS an infomercial. All their videos are. They are selling and profiting off of literally everything they showcase. It's the entire point of their existence.
Well, that is what they should be doing. This is a consignment auction and their goal is to get top dollar for the client and thus the highest fee for themselves.
...I'm sorry, your point would be, what?
Well there in the business to sell things
Hard to “oversell” a once in a lifetime find like this.
My question is always where are the rest of them?
Probably rotting away in grandpappys attic unfortunately
Sweet
Truly incredible. 💯🇺🇲
I make cases for vintage rifles and am very interested in the dimensions of the crate, as well as the type of wood used, etc.
To make it real, my parents bought a 3 bedroom house about 1976. Price, $15,000. Bare bones basic house. Also in 1976 you could have bought a 34' Silver Streak travel trailer for $15,500.
Listed with an estimate of from $150,000 to $250,000.
The rifle sold for a total of $352,500.
This is an amazing story. :)
45-90 nice 👌
So beautiful. I can't wait to find out what it sells for in the end.
$352,500
It is a awesome find.Wish I had the money.....
Amazing story. $20,000 in 1975/76 is about $120,000 today. Incredible story, I just wish it wasn't told by an auction house as an advertisement. But I guess the story had to come out somehow, otherwise we would never know of it.
I think even then it was Drastically undervalued
Your are doing a good job of selling it. Personally to me "It's just a gun"
45/90?!?
This Is THE Unicorn
In the late 70's I found a 45-90 octagon barrel in an old farm dump. My kid has it in his gun safe now. If I remember right, it was bored oversize and I figured it was an old gunsmith's trash. I really miss digging around old dumps.
@@tt600pch thank you
AMERICAN History at it's FINEST
Too much drama... just get to the showing of the gun.......PLEASE!!!
I'm shocked there is no corrosion considering it was stored in a leather scabbard.
Does this go up for auction today, aug 23? Where can we find out about how much it goes for?
$352,500
Still some one of one hundred and one of one thousands out there somewhere.....
Wow!
Great video, perhaps do another on on the rifle itself
What a beaut
I always like to imagine the stories an antique can tell, be it firearms or otherwise and all the hands that held them... But this firearm has never been held, and has no stories.
It has one of the most boring stories an old gun can have. Sat in a box all its life.
It's like the gun equivalent of the Harriet Dean sword from the 1430s!
….one of the last remaining swords from the arsenal at Alexandria.
@@smitty71XX , Very good! Someone knows their historic swords!😁
Just wow it should bring a big dollar amount
Sad that the family kept it, albiet stored in an attic, all those years (they knew it was there from the story) and now some descendants sell it
They're from an upscale old Massachusetts family. The thought of having the money is probably much more appealing than having some icky old gun owned by their racist great grandfather. That's the mentality of a lot of these people.
Firearms such as this should not moved out of the United States.
Lot's of vintage American muscle cars are in the hands of foreign collectors.
Wow
How much did it sell for ?
What kind of price will this item bring??? Are we talking high 6-figures due to its mint condition and provenance? More?!?
What did it sell for?
i think the sale price of the gun will cover the video budget...
So basically, this is proof that Unicorns do exist...
WOW!!!!
The best condition antiques in the world, are the ones that were never used and stored away due to circumstance...
what did it bring?
Thats an extremely rare Winchester! Did it get sold yet? If so what did it bring at auction? It has to be worth 6 figures!
Man! it said August 23-25 Bedford Tx
Amazing, no rust?
Does anybody know what this will actually sell for?
Ho. Ly. Crap. That's incredible
Were you about to cry 😢
It's not mint. It's _mythic._
Question; Is it still legal to own in Massachusetts???
How did the gun not get rusted being kept in the case in an attic near water?
I wonder what it went for on auction?
I think you missed the point of the video or you did not watch to the end...this was basically a hyped up infomercial for auctuion at the end of the month.
So it has not been sold!
@@jefferyedwards5003 thanks
One million +……
The blueing on the receiver is not mint. It did not look like that when it left the factory. I think its called marbelized. The barrel is mint.
It is case-hardened and that is indeed the way it should look. It is still done today, but it is more expensive and less durable than standard bluing.
I about wet myself when he said the appraiser said 20K. ( in 1976 ) . Is it just me…I think it’s impossible to put a price on it. I doubt it’s equal exists.
It's a miracle it didn't rust or get chewed up by wood rats..🥃😎👌
It is beyond belief.
@@MrTruckerf
My grandpa has a One of 1000 Winchester 1873 rifle in mint condition in his closet when he died in 1969.. It sprouted legs and walked out before his body was cold and my dad got home from Alaska.. It's hard to keep them from being stolen these days even with a safe..😎👌
Any idea of what it appraises at now?
$150,000 - $250,000 is the guess.
That is the most valuable and historic Winchester rifle I've ever seen. In 45-80 , try getting cartridges. It's a buffalo hunting gun good for bear as well. This is better than mint. It has a 140 year old patina on the rifle that's beautiful in itself. Should be in a museum or a climate control case protected.
so whats it worth
that's the story of Sleeping Beauty
...this was basically a hyped up infomercial for auctuion at the end of the month.
According to their website, they are hoping for an "Estimated Price: $150,000 - $275,000"
so no, it is NOT (at least now) an "every man's gun".
You have no respect for what this gun is and represents.
@philholland3218
Glad to hear that you will be eager to pay their full asking price then...because if you are not willing, you must not appreciate it for what it is.
I could pay that and not bat an eye, but why? So it can sit on my shelf?
It is metal and wood that someone created on a line, plus thousands more that year and the years to follow.
A firearm is meant to be used, not collecting dust. It is a tool, not a piece of art.
The auction house is in the business of hype to drive up the price!
Must be worth more than $1m
Started watching this with the hopes you'd show the s# & also hoping it would be close to mine sadly it is not mines xx2 and a true barn find, thanks for the story.