Pawn Shop '92 Win.

[Rio Grande]

1892 Winchester in 25-20, looong octagon barrel. OLD.
Stock very nice, screw heads OK.
Curved metal buttplate had some kind of ugly black paint on it. But not on stock.
Original finish, looked like. 'Patina', not really a 'blue', but not rusty.
I didn't look thru the bore, but looked down into it (from an angle!), looked pretty much shot out and worn.
Wish I'd got the serial number....
They were asking $1200.
I'm no Winchester collector/expert, but that sounds too high to me.
Strange what you see in Pawn Shops.

[454PB]

My Dad gave me one that matches your description when I was 12 years old. I shot it quite a bit, and even used some commercial cast boolits. Even though badly pitted, it shot accurately.

I gave it to my Daughter about 10 years ago. I saw one just like it (but in rougher shape) about a month ago, and they were asking $1400.

[pietro]

$1200 is about $300 under it's value in today's market, IMHO.

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[Charlie Sometimes]

Our dollar now is worth $0.03 of a 1930 dollar- that still $36 in 1930.
I agree, I think they are too high also, but that is what I am seeing in all the pawn shops and gun shows too.

[Southern Son]

since that cowboy silhouette started up down under, the prices of 92 Winchesters with a reasonable original bore have gone nuts here, too. Many that got re-barreled about, but they want big money for them, too, even though there is almost no collector value left in the rifle.

[9.3X62AL]

Yeah, the CAS expansion hasn't done hunters and shooters a lot of good in terms of levergun prices.

[NoDakJak]

I bought my first 92 Winchester in 1954 for the princely sum of $15.00. Very good condition also! That doesn't sound like much today but at that time I was a young teenager that worked twelve hours farm labor for $3.00 a day. Sixty hours hard labor paid for that rifle. Another two days labor bought a box of ammunition and left enough money for the saturday movie matinee. I just wonder how all that translate into todays values.
In 1954 my wages jumped to $4.00 and room and board. In 1957 I enlisted in the Navy and took a serious cut in pay. Neil