1915 Panama Pacific Expo guns?

[fox-admin]

This week at our duck club sporting clays shoot we got 22419 FE and 22416 XE back together after 111 years. Both guns were made "For Exhibition" for the 1915 Panama Pacific Expo. Just curious does anyone else own a gun from that exhibition?? If so pictures would be appreciated. Most of the 12ga guns fall in the 22430 to 22440 range.

[Jeff S]

Wow, Wow, Wow! Very impressive Craig.

[Foxnut]

Craig,
My 16 Gauge BE letters as a gun for the 1915 Panama Exposition. I’m out of town but when I get back home I’ll post a pic of it along the letter and original hang tag. Brett

[jolly bill]

I don't own them anymore but here are two that were there plus a picture of the Fox Expo in case anyone is curious what it looked like.

First picture: Fox SPECIAL 12 gauge with serial number 22323 (* See below.) and
Second picture: a 16 gauge Fox SPECIAL with serial number 300476 and
Third picture: What the Fox display looked like.

(* Actually, I was told there was no card for 22323 but the guns on both sides of it were pretty fancy and were probably at the Expo, so I assumed 22323 was also. However, I could be wrong, but it is a very gorgeous Fox.)

[jolly bill]

If you would like to see much better pictures and some other very interesting tidbits on those two Fox SPECIALS pictured above, see two of Tom Kidd's Double Gun Journal articles on them:

For the 12 Gauge SPECIAL, Ser. No. 22323 see "For Exposition" in Volume 11, Issue 2 - Summer of 2000 edition and
For the 16 Gauge SPECIAL, Ser. No. 300476 see "Trick or Treat" in Volume 7, Issue 4 - Winter of 1996 edition.

[Jeff S]

Beautiful guns Bill, thanks

[loggy]

Bill, thanks for sharing. You have certainly owned some of the best Foxes made, john

[eightbore]

I own the very sign that is hanging in the far back right corner of the display. There are better pictures of the sign in other venues.

[Researcher]

Some beautiful shotguns, thanks for sharing. Great to see some of them getting out.

Was the Panama-Pacific Exposition the 111 years ago start of "everybody that plays gets a ribbon/medal"?

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[bbman3]

I once owned an AE 20 that was on display at the Expo. Bobby

[fox-admin]

I searched the records and came up with 23 12ga, 9 16ga, and 17 20ga guns marked "For Exposition". Future Newsletter article.