COLORIZE E C Griffith - 1901 GAH at Live Birds
 

A few years back and through good fortune I came across an original albumen silver photograph of the “Straights” at the 1901 GAH at Live Birds, and as far as I know it includes the only known original image of Ansley Fox who was one of the 22 Straights, all of whom are ID’d on the picture margin. The albumen photo is of course black & white and its detail is amazing! I've been fooling around with colorizing individual shooters in that picture and want to share one of E C Griffith of Pascoag RI who was the GAH winner with 18 straight in the miss & out shoot-off the next day. As most here know Griffith fielded a 12-gauge Parker and I see it's straight gripper. Enjoy!

I've also colorized Ansley but I'm unsure how to share it with Fox enthusiasts in a photo copy or poster while also keeping pirated copies from showing up on web sites, E bay etc.

single or double click for full detail - check out the pattern on his trousers

thanks Frank

as for pirating - not much you can do - in fact some of the new photo editors have build in AI processing to make it very easy to identify and remove watermarks like your red lettering on this one. IMHO - that has no reason to exist EXCEPT to allow misuse of images -

the best hope is to only show very low resolution images that are hard to enlarge, but some technology can defeat that now as well

the old saying is "where there is a will, there is a way" seems to fit - its a real problem for professional photographers these days - image theft is everywhere,

Thanks, Frank. I'd enjoy this either colorized or in B&W.

I hope you can figure a way to show us Ansley, too.

Frank that's great as colorizing isn't easy to do well. You did a great job. They look like Filson wool trousers or bibs, mine are gray with the same pattern. They're 30 years old.

In the 1900 GAH at Live Bird Tournament, A.H. Fox listed as entry #56... 28yd handicap.

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Trapshooters.com thread about Griffith, but I need to update the link and restore the images
http://www.trapshooters.com/threads/...n-1901.213270/

The straights at the GAH of Live Birds

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This is Researcher's image from American Field - Griffith is far right; Fox 4th from left in front

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Parker was still promoting Griffith's win in 1915

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The previous thread...missing the images and the links are inactive :(
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25182

January 4, 1902 Sporting Life

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June 14, 1913 Sporting Life

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Just for info that "Henry C" shown in the copied list of Straights is H. C. Koegl. His full name is included on the border of my albumen photo. Credit where due.

Also, Griffith shot at 28 yards handicap. Ansley was one of the three Straights who shot from the 30 yard pad.

Don`t remember the publication... I think in 1901 A.H. Fox was shooting for Winchester...

Trap3

Dave no doubt has the details

A.H. Fox used a DH SN 88807 ordered on August 9, 1898 by H.P. Collins in Baltimore. The gun was a 12/30 Titanic, with a straight grip and no safety. The gun was returned to Parker Bros. on September 18, 1900 by Fox to clean and rebrown the barrels and repair the action, and the work was completed October 5, 1900.

He won the 1900 Baltimore Shooting Association Tournament in March and the Sportsmen’s Show Tournament in May
and also in May set a new Doubles record of 98X100 with his Parker
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA413

He competed in the GAH at Targets in June
https://books.google.com/books?id=UkohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA499

In August, 1900 he was using a Winchester Model 1897, with which he won the Baltimore Shooting Ass. Tournament in Nov.

He used the Winchester 1897 at the March, 1901 Madison Square Garden Sportsmen’s Show Tournament

He was one of 22 competitors who were straight at 25 birds in the 1901 GAH at Live Birds using the Winchester 1897, but missed his first bird in the shoot-off.

He was shooting for Winchester in June, 1902 but in the fall left Winchester to establish the Philadelphia Arms Co.

March 16, 1907 Sporting Life
https://digital.la84.org/digital/col...id/33726/rec/1

If I'm counting correctly five shooters, including the winner, were using Winchester LEADER shells --

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and one the Winchester PIGEON shell which was offered from 1898 to 1907, both loaded and as an NPE --

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The rest used Union Metallic Cartridge Co. shells, TRAP loaded shells --

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SMOKELESS loaded shells --

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and ACME NPEs --

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I find it impressive that Ridgley B. Bond of Jessop, Maryland, ran them with the then new Baltimore Arms Co. gun.

Winchester Leader
 

Winchester Pocket Catalog of the Leader Shell and The loads some of the Champions shoot...

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