A little different AE
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 2:52 pm
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A little different AE
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Re: A little different AE
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:35 pm
fnmucci,
Another beauty!
Would you put some more film in your camera and show us more. Any details about the gun you'd like to share? (Hope so.)
Thanks for your pictures.
You obviously have good taste in guns, ie, Fox's.
Jolly
Another beauty!
Would you put some more film in your camera and show us more. Any details about the gun you'd like to share? (Hope so.)
Thanks for your pictures.
You obviously have good taste in guns, ie, Fox's.
Jolly
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:09 pm
Nice appears to be a Savage era A
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:17 pm
Correct savage but very philly. Check out the barrels a little different finish. Plus a lot more features. Gun was shipped to front office
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:03 am
Those fancy engraved "wedding bands" on the breeches are cool looking and imo add a lot to the looks of the gun. Factory work that I've seen occasionally on Savage era barrels. Latest one was on a 12-gauge Super-Fox.
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:33 am
That one appears to have been a closet gun for the most part. Very very nice.
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:04 pm
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:57 am
Breech ball filed like X or higher grade. only the third A grade I have seen with that feature. 
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 6:57 pm
Very good Foxist now part 3
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:31 am
That is identical to my gun
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:45 am
Vent rib? Verrry interesting.
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 11:57 am
As scarce as they are, and as expensive as they were at the time, customers sure did not flock to these low frame, flatish, Savage-era, Fox vent ribs. Seems like we see a hundred vent ribbed Ithaca NIDs with their high frame to every Fox vent rib we see. Savage only pictured the vent rib for doubles in the 1931 to 1934 retail catalogs, and the pictures show a ramp like the Parker Bros. vent rib?!?
There weren't many folks willing to spring for a $32.50 option on a $57 or $70 gun --
which sure makes a vent ribbed Fox the darling of collectors now.
I've never seen one with a ramp like the catalog pictures, just flat like the gun fnmucci is showing or this gent is shooting --
- Vent Rib as shown in the 1931 to 1934 Fox Catalog
- June 21, 1932, Wholesale and Retail Prices
I've never seen one with a ramp like the catalog pictures, just flat like the gun fnmucci is showing or this gent is shooting --
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:21 am
Nope only the markings. Mine did not have the rib and was a 1926 gun
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:44 pm
Gun was made for the office NOV 24, 1931. full grip 2 lyman sights and vent rib on the card
Re: A little different AE
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:22 am
fnmucci,
Thanks for posting pix of your gun.... I had overlooked this thread until this morning. Really like the barrel breech engraving & the flourish on the rib extension. Lovely condition.
Is it a 12ga gun? I believe yours is only the 2nd Fox vent rib gun with a splinter forend that I have seen, the others all wearing beavertails. Gives the gun a very nice look.
Researcher, I agree with you, I have never encountered a Fox vent rib gun with the "ramp treatment" either.
tjw
Thanks for posting pix of your gun.... I had overlooked this thread until this morning. Really like the barrel breech engraving & the flourish on the rib extension. Lovely condition.
Is it a 12ga gun? I believe yours is only the 2nd Fox vent rib gun with a splinter forend that I have seen, the others all wearing beavertails. Gives the gun a very nice look.
Researcher, I agree with you, I have never encountered a Fox vent rib gun with the "ramp treatment" either.
tjw