Wayne: Fox changed the engraving style on all the graded guns in 1913. The lowest serial number I have recorded for the post 1913 A grade engraving (your style gun) is 20525. The highest serial number I have recorded for the early style engraving is 21061. So as you can see there was a period of cross over. Larry's gun is well within the early style serial number range. The early style A grade was a big seller before the introduction of the Sterlingworth in 1910. I estimate around 17000 12ga early style A's were produced between 1906 and 1913.
Larry's gun is a very nice example and as Dave Noreen has noted the single trigger and 2nd style ejectors may have been installed after the original ship date since they are both post 1910-1911 features. Craig
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Opps as Frank points out below Larry's gun has 1st style ejectors--not 2nd style as I stated above.
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