Sometimes we know the classic only in retrospect. The Winchester, as an example, in its many variants was just what a rifle should be, what we expected. Until that fateful year when silver coins turned to copper, LBJ gave us the Great Society, and Winchester stopped making the Rifleman's Rifle.
Of course the Winchester was always an American phenomenon, largely unknown to the outside world. In that great movie, The Wind and the Lion, Sean Connery, who plays the Bedouin sheik who has kidnapped the American woman played by Candice Bergen, asks her during their game of chess what kind of rifle her President, Theodore Roosevelt, uses.
She answers, "A Winchester."
"Never heard of it."
"You will. Checkmate."