Fox Collectors

Stumbled across this and thought it should be here. From the Vintagers at Addieville in 2013 --
The AHFCA Board surrounding Savage Historian John Callahan and the ephemera he brought.

Savage introduced the Model 420 & 430 12- & 20-gauge in their 1937 retail catalog -- Over-unders 1937 catalog.jpg The January 2, 1937, Wholesale Price List states the 12-gauge would be ready to ship in May and the 20-gauge in September -- Model 420, January 2, 1937, Wholesale Price List.jpeg...

That is a nice one!! Don't think I've ever seen one that nice for sale. My dad's second younger brother, my Uncle Irv, had a 12-gauge 430 when I was young. I probably remember it from pictures actually. By the early 50s Irv went totally Remington pump, Model 870 AP "Standard" Grades in 12-...

Sixty years of memories with "Meat-in-the-Pot" are better than all those safe queens --

Kevin, I doubt there is a Wayne Junction address ejector gun. The earliest Sterlingworth Ejector I've recorded is 58901, well into the Model 1911 era. No mention of ejectors in The Sterlingworth Co. catalog --

1. TR's F-Grade
2. BoWhoop
3. The Senator Hawes DE-Grade/Becker 20-gauge 203660
4. One of the G.A.M. guns
5. One of the Joshua Greene AE Special 30-inch 20-gauges

Looking at the production cards, a lot of Fox guns that were languishing in inventory went to J.L. Galef in an Odds & Ends sale. Throughout the 1930s we see J.L. Galef selling A.H. Fox guns below Savage's Wholesale Price. From 1932 -- J.L Galef 1932.jpg October 1934 J.L. Galef catalog -- October...

For most yesterday and today I have not been able to get to the PGCA Site. Get a box that states that site does not support a secure connection.

Not if you are offering it For Sale.

I owned a 20-gauge that probably looked just like that back in the fall of 1938 when it was the 21st birthday present for my friend Henry Thomas of Federal Oak Farm in Charles County, Maryland. Henry was an English Setter man and in the fifty years between when he got the gun and he gave it to me, i...

That is a nice one! Savage turned out a bit over 11400 16-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth guns. While the serial number range would show nearly as many 20-gauges, Savage guns start showing up in the 261xxx range and the last 20-gauge serial number is 271304. There is a gap in the 20-gauge serial numbers fro...

Ithaca did offer a heavier weight barrel on their trap guns but unless you have two besides each other it may not be recognized. Wonder if they did the same for NID skeet guns? My 1936 12-gauge No. 4E Skeet Gun tips the scales at 8 pounds 3.5 ounces and the weight is all in the barrels. Hard to ima...

From a vintage Lyman Handbook/Catalog --

A shirttail cousin who is one of the country's big cartridge collectors gave me a 1" shell for mine it just sits in the cabinet next to the pistol.

The Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Co., Inc. made the Mark III, which took a 10-gauge flare shell, at their Bridgeport works -- 19-710 02.jpg 19-710 06.jpg 19-710 03.jpg while Scott-Fetzer Machine Co. and A.H. Fox Gun Co. made the Mark IV which took a 25 mm flare shell, many later converted...