Here is a step back in time! Doug Turnbull has recreated all of the rifles from the 1897 catalogue - Winchester Highly Finished Arms. You can look at all of the rifles with the matching pages from the original catalogue. It is a very interesting read, but the link is not dial-up friendly:
http://www.turnbullmfg.com/client_images/catalog19872/pages/files/winchester_catalog_full3_optimized.pdf
Note the prices for the engravings and stock carving/checkering - that was some serious coin back then!
http://www.turnbullmfg.com/client_images/catalog19872/pages/files/winchester_catalog_full3_optimized.pdf
Note the prices for the engravings and stock carving/checkering - that was some serious coin back then!
