Jack if that rifle was originally a 25-35 it's probably pretty rare.  Is the serial number in the range where there are still factory records?  According to Bert H there were only 64 made in the period where there were factory records.  I imagine that cartridge was probably more popular in the later days though.   

Pretty cool find, especially as a takedown.  I thought I had an original early one, but it turns out that it was originally a 38-55

Chris.

You could re-retire Jack, buy a big yacht and live aboard at Sequim WA. That John Wayne Marina is a nice one.

I spent a couple days and nights at Roche harbor. We tied up to a buoy and commenced to sorting things out on the boat before heading to town in the dingy. Here comes this young man standing up on a jet ski dressed in bermuda shorts a white sport coat and tie. Comes along side, good evening, will you be staying with us tonight? Yes I said, he says thats wonderful. The buoy is twenty dollars per night. Me being a long standing buoy bandit I just stared at him. The more I stared the bigger his smile got so I finally bellerd below to the galley wench, did you bring any cash with you?! We're being held up!! What a classy place. They really put on the ritz. It was so wonderful we paid whatever they wanted. Fond memories. I don't know about living there as it's on the backside of no where. Sequim is the place you oughta be. Chinese food, nice weather. Lots of things to do. Great fishing all around that area. Neah Bay. If you collect and restore old Ford pickups there used to be a couple three wrecked Ford pickups in every yard there. Native American reservation. Oh the memories. Makes me want to go back there.

There used to be quite a single shot rifle group of people in the area. Yes I did spend time there and it is a wonderful place. Where I lived rainfall was 40-70 inches a year. Sequim 45 miles away with its 17 inches of rain. So nice, when the rain got to you, you could be at Sequim having lunch outside in a little over an hour. 

Now that I have you ready to move to Sequim on your forty five foot Cheoy Lee double ender we must get back to that Winchester 1885 25-35 takedown rifle. Your future happiness may depend on that Cody letter. Oh the agony!

A little reminder, yacht life, no lawn to mow, no leaves....

Crabs are good. When I was a kid they were so inexpensive our ‘cheap’ dinner was toasted English muffins With crab and cheese. Got to get moving and scrape  the barnacles of the yacht and varnish the teak.

Or you may end up building up a two barrel set with your other takedown mechanism! Two barrel 1885's have got to be pretty rare and desirable too!

Yours came out like mine.  It was a 38-55 .  If it was an original it would have been a real early one.

Just as well for mine.  I don't have any real use for a 38-55.  I might put a 38-50RH barrel on it, or maybe I'll finally use the RKS 32-40 barrel I've had here a while.

Chris.