FAIRFIELD, MAINE —  Jim Julia’s final firearms sale on March 21-23 included part one of the Ray Bentley Winchester collection. Topping the sale and matching a world record, a Winchester model 66 sold for $598,000.  The exhibition lever-action rifle was manufactured in 1870 and  engraved  by the master of the Winchester engraving shop, Conrad F. Ulrich. Other firearms, including two Gatling guns topped $200,000 each, and an engraved rifle, presented to Annie Oakley by Marlin in 1893, brought $258,750.

 The sale included more than 100 Class III guns and military items, ammunition, western saddles, hand guns from various periods,  Confederate weapons and flags, an 1863 half-plate ambrotype of General George Armstrong Custer and much more.  A full report will follow.