Uberti Yellowboy .22

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MyTFAL

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I have lucked into a very clean, Uberti 1866 Yellowboy I paid next to nothing for it and after a lot of research I've discovered this:
It is a Very early import, serial number 43x it is marked "Westerner Arms"
which I am assuming is the precurser to "Western arms" Santa Fe NM. It is the 19" round barrel carbine model. It is in 90% shape and with a little cleaning it should come up to 95% or better.
it is not marked with any other model information.
I haven't been able to date it from the serial #, but I believe it is around 1966vintage. It came with the post modern vinyl gun case.
If anyone can add any information I would greatly appreciate it. Estimates on value or even educated guesses would also help me out. I can find virtually no information on these .22 models apparently they didn't make a whole lot of them. It is very smooth and function is great. Thanks for any and all help.
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MyTFal

I second the notion put forth by 1KPerDay; leave the patina exactly as it is. It looks fantastic and makes it seem like it was really built in 1866 instead of a 100 years later. You can't buy that kind of character on a rifle made nowadays.
 
Do you see two letters in a square somewhere in the proof marks? Or a Roman numeral?
Italian guns are date coded by one of those methods.
 
DOn't do anything to it till you find out what it is worth, you have heard the story about the Tiffany's lamp on Antiques Roadshow right?
 
I am pretty sure Westerner Arms was the old import name that Navy Arms used for their import line of Italian made replicas when they started bringing them in in the early-mid 1970s.
I started working in a gun shop 35 years ago when I was 15 and lusted after those 1866 .22 carbines, the shop had several in stock, rifles and carbines.
There was no way I could afford the princely sum of $450 at that time.
 
Just looked up the Italian roman numeral code looks like 1966 is the year of production, I wonder when they started production of these, it's a three digit serial number so it had to be close.
 
That is a real FIND you have there...I echo the sentiments...don't clean up the brass to "shiny"....leave it as is and shoot it for fun.....I have a Henry Golden Boy but it surely ain't the same thing......real nice rifle tho it is....but it only sorta looks like a 1866 Yellowboy....
 
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