RIFLE, REPEATING
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- MARLIN LEVER ACTION RIFLE
- Date Range From
- 1890
- Date Range To
- 1920
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P20000028002
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- MARLIN LEVER ACTION RIFLE
- Date Range From
- 1890
- Date Range To
- 1920
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 16.5
- Length
- 194.5
- Width
- 3.7
- Description
- 38-40 MARLIN 13 SHOT REPEATING RIFLE. LEVER ACTION HANDLE. ROUND BARREL SHOWS CORROSION AND IS MARKED ".38-W", "MARLIN FIRE-ARMS CO" AND STAMPED WITH PATENT DATES. STEEL SIGHT AT END GUN BARREL. SERIAL NO. UNDER RECEIVER STAMPED "39381". LEVER ACTION DOES NOT CLOSE PROPERLY.
- Subjects
- ARMAMENT-FIREARM
- Historical Association
- SPORTS
- History
- RIFLE BELONGED TO DONOR'S PARENTS ISABELLA (NEE ROLLINS, B. 1888) AND EGBERT WELLS (B. 1886). PARENTS WERE SETTLED IN THE WEST BY AGE 18. EGBERT HOMESTEADED SOUTH OF FORT MACLEOD IN 1906. DONOR REMEMBERS HER FATHER NEVER GOING BACK FOR A LOAD OF STRAW WITHOUT HIS GUN IN CASE HE SAW A COYOTE. IN 1928, PARENTS MOVED TO WELLSVILLE, AB, BUT RETURNED TO LETHBRIDGE TO RETIRE AND ARE BURIED IN LETHBRIDGE. EXTENSIVE DOCUMENTATION ON FAMILY'S HISTORY IS ATTACHED TO PERMANENT FILE.
- Catalogue Number
- P20000028002
- Acquisition Date
- 2000-10
- Collection
- Museum
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