The scope is a Stevens 455. Its not as long as the barrel, but since there is no provision for a front sight, the scope is original to the rifle. I have to confess its been 30 years since I've shot most of my Stevens, although I do remember all of them shot very well. That 56 is in .25RF. I also have one in 22LR and another in 25/20SS. You may be interested to know that despite it not being mentioned in the Stevens catalogs, 56s were available with many custom features. My .22 has a cheek piece and DSTs. Jim Goergen has one with DSTs and a Steven-Pope barrel!

You're welcome. Since you are interested in Ladies rifles these are some that I own.
This first is the 56 in 22LR:
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This is the 56 in 25/20SS:
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This is a very early 21. Note how the whole barrel is exposed:
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This next one is an early 55:
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This is a latter 55 which is defined by the radius in the corner of the action:
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It has a rare Pope windage sight:
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This last one is probably the rarest in that it is a DLX Favorite. I only know of one other:
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All of them except the Favorite have Swiss buttplates. It has a curved rubber one marked "Favorite" in a ribbon.

As usual I continue to rely on my once photograpic memory...it now is often wrong.

Very nice rifles!
What frame were the #55 Lady Models made on?

Steve

The 21 and 55s were both made on Favorite frames. The 56 was the only one made on a different frame. The wording of your question also points out an interesting point which was that Stevens could not settle on a name. In various catalog incarnations they used both "Lady" model and "Ladies" model

BP wrote on Aug 7^th, 2010 at 6:08pm:


BP,

     Like Joel, my photographic memory is getting a little blurry.  "Momma don't take my Kodachrome..." etc.  However, to the best of my limited memory, the replacement stems (indeed the whole sight assemblies) became available fairly late, so would be only on the a-type sights unless somebody just put one of the windage stems on an earlier base.  You could check the Lyman Journal and/or the Stroebel books for a more definitive answer.

Froggie

PS  The giveaways on Joel's were the Lyman knurled barrel on the sight as well as the adjusting knob for windage.  Both are quite different on the Pope sight.  GF

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Green One,
Always interesting how we each key in on different features to rapidly identify items. On Lyman tang sights, my eyes always look first at the construction of joint mechanism. 
I've never seen a 47 stem shown in the sales literature with the earlier #1/#2 bases, but only with the 1A/2A series.
There is a Pope pictured on the front cover of Stroebels "Old Gunsights" book, positioned in front of the Win Mid-Range boxed set.

Joel,
I think the general pattern was that the 55's had threaded barrel shanks, while the 21's were smooth slip-in shanks, though I seem to recall that JJ Grant noted there were 1 or 2 exceptions to this. 
And I believe your wife gave you an astute answer. 

Regards,
BP

Joel,

You're right. With Stevens, it seems that there are exceptions to the exceptions! 

Really nice 47!! 
As far as the 104 sight goes, I consider it to be more user friendly to make adjustments (when they are tight of course). 
The Pope is a nice sight, but if you loose the adjusting pin (the ones I've seen looked like a straight eye fishhook that had the bend and barb snipped off), you can be kinda SOL unless you remembered to bring a spare, or have a small dia pin punch in the kit.