South African Model 1873 Winchester

[Patrick Chadwick]

It is also possible that the letters were stamped at some later date.

73 Besl matches in Germany
4 in Austria
0 in Netherlands
0 in South Africa
150 in USA

Above are for private persons, not businesses, listed in "White Pages" or equivalent.

I may well have missed something, but the statistics seem to make it most likely that the name was stamped on the barrel by the owner after it arrived in the USA. Please search yourself to confirm/alter these results: