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Unread 11-25-2019, 02:14 PM   #1
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Default AH Fox “A” ?

Just picked up a Fox today that’s marked as an A on the water table and was made in 1910 but the engraving and checkering are not commensurate with an A or B for that matter . It is a bit roughish .
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The thing is a 12 and 30” tight and tight . Has a rather hard Jostam pad and the finial is missing from the forend . Also as you can see in the pics the head of the stock is pinned . Inside the barrels are spotless and they ring true .
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Looks like maybe a D
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I would get a card from the A H Fox collectors. Very interesting
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I am going to guess that is an upgraded Fox.
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A nice looking gun that was probably reengraved post-factory. The dogs do have similarities to those on factory guns and possibly one of Fox's contract engravers did it as a moonlight project.
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The grip shape and the checkering looks like the patterns found on some of the highest grade Ithaca Flues Model doubles and SBTs.

Hopefully the serial number is high enough that a production card exists. Some strange and unusual stuff was done at North 18th Street & Windrim Avenue. Like the "Joshua Green" guns, 30-inch, 20-gauges, that card as AE-Specials --

202136 AESpecial 08.jpg

202136 AESpecial 09.jpg

Made for a number of Seattle high rollers.
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I’m sure if 1st Sargent Mostellar was still with us he’d get a kick out of this one ! I always enjoyed when he visited me at the shop !!
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My thoughts are also a custom gun. Done a long time ago by the looks of it.
It is an attractive gun and very well done. It just started as an A grade and went from there.

The major thing about the engraving that does not look like anything that would have come out of the factory is the work crossing over the trigger plate and the frame vs. using borders to define the different parts.

And the grip and checkering looks to be i spired by Lefever, Ithaca and maybe a touch of a few others too.

Interesting find. A card request with the Fox group would tell you the story for sure.
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The fellow that sold me that gun said he was originally from the Baton Rouge area and his grandfather owned etc etc . I don’t think they bought it new however . Anyway this fellow moved to VA he claimed 40+ years ago . Evidently his predecessors used it rather heavily in the Louisiana bayou
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