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Extremely Rare and Well-Documented, Colt Deluxe, Exhibition Quality Gold/Silver Finished, L.D. Nimschke Engraved Lightning Magazine Slide-Action “Baby Carbine” with Factory Letter - Serial no. 27981, 44-40 WCF cal., 20 Inch bbl., gold/silver plated finish, walnut checkered stock. The letter states that this carbine was fitted with “Fancy Wood” stock and shipped “Soft” to Hartley & Graham in New York, New York, on May 9, 1888, as part of a three gun shipment. The “soft” notation indicates that the rifle was intended to be engraved and finished by Hartley & Graham. Many Colt firearms sold soft by Colt to Hartley & Graham were engraved by L.D. Nimschke’s New York shop. This rifle features Nimschke’s distinctive scroll and border engraving on a punch dot-background. The engraving covers the receiver, upper and lower tang, trigger guard, dust cover, top and sides of the barrel to the rear sight, muzzle, barrel band and buttplate heel. The receiver, trigger guard and barrel band are gold plated and the barrel, magazine, dust cover and buttplate have a silver-plated finish. The stock and forearm are highly figured, fancy grain walnut with fine checkering
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and a high polish piano finish.