Very nice. Woodcock and a setter, can't beat that.....

The dogs on C grades vary quite a bit over the years as does the background engraving. Yours is particularly nice.

WOW!!! Quail too. That gun belongs in N Georgia. I can tell by the trigger plate.

You want to check out Frank Srebro's article in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Twenty-Six, Issue 2, page 125.

I would like to Dave but unfortunately I do not have that issue.

This is one of only four C Grade 12-gauge Foxes with heart-shaped cheek checker panels that were known at the time of that article. I also knew of two in 20-gauge = a total of six original guns. I haven't heard of any more since then.

Steve, I know who owned your gun prior to the dealer where you bought it (I saw it advertised) and also know who he bought it from, some years earlier. Sorry but that info was given to me in confidence and I can't share it here or privately without going back on my word. Maybe the earliest owner mentioned can provide more data if/when he reads this thread.

frank

Thanks Frank for the information on the side checkering. Very cool:) I am aware of one of the former owners, where in line I do not know, that copied Fox records at Savage.

If the owner you mentioned could contact me it would be greatly appreciated.

Steve, here's what I can share without compromising my word: a little more than a year ago, gent "A" asked me if I wanted to make a package buy on 3 Foxes which included your Heart CE. I declined because I was (and am) on a mission to reduce the collection. I already knew that A owned the Heart CE because he'd given me info on it for the article, some months before that. I know for sure that A never worked at Savage. He told me that he'd bought the gun from gent "B", and I also know that B hadn't worked at Savage. I do not know how B came to get the gun, nor have I ever had it in my hands.

When I saw your gun recently listed I assumed that A had sold or consigned it to that dealer, however there may have been another intermediate party involved since A and the dealer are many states apart.

frank

That gun was once owned by my good friend Bill Harris DeFuniak Springs Florida, sadly Bill is deceased. I was lucky to know Bill and visited him at his 750 acre Plantation in Florida in 2009. Bill was one of the collectors that copied the Fox records at the Savage plant. Bill donated a copy of the factory records to the AHFCA in 2009. Bill had a separate building dedicated to his substantial gun collection. When I visited him in 2009 he had 14 Super Foxes, it blew me away!!! Bill always felt 21308 was the first second style C grade gun. However, we have observed a lower serial number second style C 20762.

Craig, thanks for the added information on my gun, Steve