winchester 1894 help needed

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I hane a 1909 winchester 1894 carbine. Chambered 32 win spe. Takedown model:) With a half size magazine tube. 26" full round barrel. Lyman flip up rear sight. 95 % barrel and mag bluing. Receiver has turned gray. Crescent butt stock. Great bore. Wood is 90 to 95 %. I know the gun is rare, but not sure how rare. I have yet to find a takedown with a 26" round barrel. Countless internet research has shown me similar guns for sale anywhere from 2500 to 5 digit ranges. Not sure why the wide range of prices. I absolutely love looking at it. Reminds me of Roosevelt's varmint gun minus the silencer. Lol. Curious if anyone has any info on production numbers of these various options. I have seen the term "special order" referenced a lot, but I would presume Winchester still produced rifles with options like this during regular production, but I'm not sure. The firearm really is in fantastic shape with no signs of monkey business (ie, buggered screws, repairs, alterations, refinishing etc etc). And value??????? I can't even begin to guess. Thanks for all of your help.
 
I'll try and get some pics. Old fellar past away. Bought a few of his collection. Absolutely love old firearms, full of history and character. Every time I hold one I picture myself back in the day of the person who first held it. What they used it for. The adventures they must have been on. Real history.
 
I find it odd that something like that get sold after someone passes away. If my progenitors left me an old firearm from the old homestead I would consider it a family heirloom, perhaps mine for a time as custodian, but never to sell, only to pass on to the next keeper of family artifact. Use it, for sure, but keep it in the family, like a sacred trust. Handed down to that member the next generation that has the same consideration. "Son, you take your first deer with Grandpa's rifle; after that you can buy your own with the money you earned last summer."
Of course, if everyone thought that way, no one would ever be able to buy such cool old rifle.
 
A takedown carbine would be extremely rare, as would a carbine with a 26" barrel. Half and two-thirds mags were special order items (yes, Winchester would make any combination of options for a price until 1963). It would probably help to get a letter from Cody to see how that gun left the factory.
 
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