New area of collecting

[Road King]

Well I've decided to expand my collecting scope of Marlin Firearms. Last week I came across 3 Marlin Firearms still in their original cardboard boxes from the 1990s. These rifles turned out to be the 3 Century Limited Employee Edition rifles. The Model 1894, model 1895 and the model 1897. The person that had these was a salesman for Marlin Firearms from the late 80s until the take over by Remington. He told me when these rifles came out in 1994, 1995 and 1997 he was given the opportunity to purchase one with his employee number as the serial number. Each one of these guns has his 2 digit employee number. How cool is that? there was only 100 of these guns produced in the Employee Edition which have gold inlays in the receiver. The ones produced for the public did not have the gold inlays. Not sure how many employees bought all 3. The calibers are 1895 .45-70, 1894 .44-40, 1897 .22

I plan on keeping these rifles as a set for the next class of collectors that will follow in our foot steps.

Enjoy the photos.

[utvolsfan77]

Very, very nice! Those are some really great looking rifles, and I sure wish I could come up on finds like that.

[Brent]

I like that 94 and in a great chambering too! I wonder why they didn't case all of them?

[marlinman93]

The Marlin 125th year commemoratives were some of the nicest done commemorative rifles ever. I generally dislike most commemorative guns as they're often cheesy, or cheaply done. The Marlins were the best!

[Road King]

The Marlin 125th year commemoratives were some of the nicest done commemorative rifles ever. I generally dislike most commemorative guns as they're often cheesy, or cheaply done. The Marlins were the best!

My same thoughts about commemoratives, but when I opened the boxes and seen these, it was Like WOW.!!. Marlin put the effort into these.

[Road King]

I have to thank Rick Regnier (gunrunner) for his assistance for a quick lesson in these rifles before heading out on a long road trip to acquire these fine rifles. As my collecting of Marlin Lever guns are of the earlier antique types, this was a new area for me.
Nice to see these younger rifles getting along with the senior rifles in my collection.

[steve004]

I also have never collected commemorative rifles but I can see it with these three. A really amazing find. They really do look several cuts above the commemorative rifles one usually sees. I enjoyed seeing them and reading the very interesting back story. Congratulations!