About 1916, prices started going up with inflation, and by the time The Great War was over, the 1919 price of the A.H. Fox Gun Co. Sterlingworth was $55 and the Parker Bros. Trojan was about the same. With the post war "correction" in the economy in 1921/22 the Sterlingworth was dropped in price to $48 and the Trojan to $50. Parker Bros. kept the price and quality of the Trojan high, $55 in April 1923, $51.50 in January 1927, and back to $55 by January 1929, and eventually sold about 33,000 of them. A.H. Fox Gun Co. dropped the price of the Sterlingworth to $36.50 by 1926, fit and finish suffered and they eventually sold well over 100000 of them.
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