Description
Item Description
This model was manufactured from 1894-1935, this example was made in 1898 making this a EARLY PRODUCTION MODEL!
Model: Favorite 1894
Serial: 44368
Date of Manufacture: 1898
Caliber: .32 RF
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 22" Round/Octagon
Optics/Sights: Fixed Blade Front / "V" Block Rear
Stock/Grips: Unfinished Hardwood Stock
Action: Single-Shot
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Stevens Arms Company, well known for its Tip-up Pistols, Boy's Rifles, and Ideal Target and Sporting Rifles, got its start at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts in 1864. Founder Joshua Stevens was a New England toolmaker who had gained experience in firearms manufacture while employed at various times by C. B. Allen, Eli Whitney, Samuel Colt, and Edwin Wesson. While employed as production superintendent for the Chicopee Falls-based Massachusetts Arms Co., he filed a successful patent claim for improvements to percussion pistols produced by this firm.
Stevens received a patent for a tip-up pistol design during the same year in which he, along with financial backers W. B. Fay and James Taylor, founded the company that bore his name. Although a producer of firearms, J. Stevens and Company's primary source of income was derived through the manufacture and sale of machine tools. The company's early years were lean ones, with production carried out in a former Chicopee Falls grist mill by fewer than 60 employees. J. Stevens and Co. underwent an expansion in 1880, and in 1886, the firm changed its name to J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co.
The original Stevens "Favorite" was patented in April 1894 and first appeared in the Stevens Catalog for that year. It became one of the most popular rifles of all time. Because of its small size and light weight it could be used by everyone, from professional trappers to youths alike. It was made almost continuously until just before World War II. There were three models (and several variants) of the Stevens Favorite -Model 1894 (1894 - 1912) Model 1889 (1889-1894) and the Model 1915 (1915 to 1935). This Model 1894 features a smooth walnut stock, 22" octagon barrel.
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