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Originally Posted by targa911S
Would those be Marlin Ballards?
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Winchester High Walls. These are the "thin side" variety; there is also a "thick side" on which the sides of the action are flush all the way across from the front to the back, rather than thinned out, or rebated like these.
Here is a Marlin Ballard from the same era. Originally a .40-63, rebored and chambered to .45-70 sometime in the 1940's in Oroville, WA: