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Sold for $2,588. The Winchester 1895 was the last of Winchester's lever-action rifles, and has an interesting place in a couple different parts of world history. On the one hand, the 1895 in .405 Winchester caliber is known as Theodore Roosevelt's “Big Medicine“ for safari hunting. On another, it was the object of the largest military lever-action purchase ever, made by the Russian Czar during World War I. The Russian military was woefully under-equipped at the outset of WWI, and needed rifles wherever it
