Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this gorgeous Winchester Commemorative 94 rifle, the Wyoming Jubilee, 75th Anniversary rifle in 30-30 Winchester today for a penny start auction!
**This is one of only 1500 rifles, in Winchester's very first commemorative rifle series**
SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Winchester
Model: 94
Serial: WJ1072
Date of Manufacture: 1964
Caliber: 30-30 Winchester
Finish: Color Case Hardened Receiver, Blued Barrel and Magazine Tube
Barrel Length: 20"
Optics/Sights: Traditional Hooded Front Sight, Rear Notch Sight
Stock/Grips: Smooth Walnut with Wyoming Jubilee Medallion
Action: Lever
Markings: Wyoming Jubilee 1890-1965, 75th Anniversary of Statehood" on Barrel
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Democrats and Republicans alike in Wyoming Territory agreed by the late 1880s that it was time their territory became a state. Statehood was attractive to the territory’s businessmen and politicians, as it offered them much more local control over land and water issues. Statehood would also mean the federal government would no longer pay the salaries of the top officials — but that savings mattered less as time went on.
One big obstacle loomed, however: were there enough people? Population had grown only slowly since the Territory was established in 1869. Congress used a general rule of thumb, dating back before the U.S. Constitution to the Northwest Ordinance, that a territory had to show a population of 60,000 people to qualify for statehood. Territorial Gov. Thomas Moonlight, a Democrat, reported in December 1888 that Wyoming had only 55,500 people. Most people lived on ranches and in small towns. The major employers, however, were the railroads (by 1890, these were the Union Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Chicago and Northwestern) and the coal mines (many owned by the railroads). But the population remained small and scattered over the territory’s 98,000 square miles.
Cheyenne businessman and rancher Francis E. Warren, was appointed to a second stint as territorial governor in 1889, replacing Moonlight. Warren strongly supported statehood. The only officer elected territory-wide, Delegate to Congress Joseph M. Carey, also backed statehood. (Territorial governors and other top officials were appointed by the president. Territorial delegates to Congress could introduce legislation, but could not vote.) Carey argued that it was not unprecedented for territories with fewer than 60,000 people to be granted statehood. Warren, Carey and the others knew that, though Wyoming's 20-year-old experiment with votes for women would be controversial when the statehood question reached Congress, the population issue was more likely to cause problems.
Contents & Condition:
This gorgeous commemorative rifle is what we believe to be New Old Stock as shown in the many high resolution photographs above. The owner states that this example remains consumer unused and we see no evidence to indicate otherwise. It ships in the Original Winchester factory box, accompanied by all the original documents pictured.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Model: 94
Serial: WJ1072
Date of Manufacture: 1964
Caliber: 30-30 Winchester
Finish: Color Case Hardened Receiver, Blued Barrel and Magazine Tube
Barrel Length: 20"
Optics/Sights: Traditional Hooded Front Sight, Rear Notch Sight
Stock/Grips: Smooth Walnut with Wyoming Jubilee Medallion
Action: Lever
Markings: Wyoming Jubilee 1890-1965, 75th Anniversary of Statehood" on Barrel
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
Democrats and Republicans alike in Wyoming Territory agreed by the late 1880s that it was time their territory became a state. Statehood was attractive to the territory’s businessmen and politicians, as it offered them much more local control over land and water issues. Statehood would also mean the federal government would no longer pay the salaries of the top officials — but that savings mattered less as time went on.
One big obstacle loomed, however: were there enough people? Population had grown only slowly since the Territory was established in 1869. Congress used a general rule of thumb, dating back before the U.S. Constitution to the Northwest Ordinance, that a territory had to show a population of 60,000 people to qualify for statehood. Territorial Gov. Thomas Moonlight, a Democrat, reported in December 1888 that Wyoming had only 55,500 people. Most people lived on ranches and in small towns. The major employers, however, were the railroads (by 1890, these were the Union Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Chicago and Northwestern) and the coal mines (many owned by the railroads). But the population remained small and scattered over the territory’s 98,000 square miles.
Cheyenne businessman and rancher Francis E. Warren, was appointed to a second stint as territorial governor in 1889, replacing Moonlight. Warren strongly supported statehood. The only officer elected territory-wide, Delegate to Congress Joseph M. Carey, also backed statehood. (Territorial governors and other top officials were appointed by the president. Territorial delegates to Congress could introduce legislation, but could not vote.) Carey argued that it was not unprecedented for territories with fewer than 60,000 people to be granted statehood. Warren, Carey and the others knew that, though Wyoming's 20-year-old experiment with votes for women would be controversial when the statehood question reached Congress, the population issue was more likely to cause problems.
When Congress did not act on Carey’s proposal for calling a Wyoming constitutional convention in 1889, presumably because of questions of population, Warren went ahead and set a date anyway for the election of delegates to a constitutional convention in Cheyenne. The election was called for July 8, 1889. Though women had full voting rights and rights to seek and hold office, not one ran for a delegate slot. The future state that had prided itself for being the first government to grant women equal political rights was to have a state constitution that was drafted, debated and passed entirely by men.
As a beautiful gesture by Winchester Repeating Arms Co., their first commemorative rifle series celebrated the 75th Anniversary of Wyoming's statehood with a limited run of only 1500 Model 94 rifles. This is number 1072 of that lot of 1500.
Contents & Condition:
This gorgeous commemorative rifle is what we believe to be New Old Stock as shown in the many high resolution photographs above. The owner states that this example remains consumer unused and we see no evidence to indicate otherwise. It ships in the Original Winchester factory box, accompanied by all the original documents pictured.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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Return Policy
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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