Fox Sterlingworth - it gets 'em

[Scott Smith]

Nice 1930's foldout I picked up at a local show.

[charlie cleveland]

just noticed the shotgun shell s i have never seen a box of the arrow express shell i think...any body else seen this box of shells...charlie

[JasonPeck]

Here is a link to the Tri-fold variations:

http://forum.foxcollectors.com/viewt...hp?f=35&t=7355

[OH Osthaus]

nice Scot- i've a pair of those i will eventually get framed together opposite sides out


seems every one I see has the Smith Hardware stamp- on one of mine the stamp is very faint- that side will out out on that one

[Twoatlow8]

I think someone at Smith Hardware spent a whole day stamping those! I have not even seen one without the stamp!

[Scott Smith]

Thanks Jason and Eric. I google mapped 600 Gratiot Ave. Only one came up - downtown Detroit near the ballpark. No hardware store there, only what looks like a construction trailer.

[Researcher]

I think someone at Smith Hardware spent a whole day stamping those! I have not even seen one without the stamp!

and then the manager showed the employee where it was supposed to be stamped in that nice space left on the back --

Orange Sterlingworth Brochure back.jpg

[Researcher]

The most interesting thing is how often that picture of Mike Stackhouse was used in advertising back in the day --

Mike Stackhouse Fox-Sterlingworth.jpg

Mike Stackhouse Miller High Life.jpg

Mike Stackhouse Peters.jpg

In the Peters and Miller ads the gun he is holding is obviously a Parker.

[Researcher]

One more thing, what is with the "FOX -- Faithful for fifty years!"? The Ansley H. Fox shotgun had only been in production about 27 years when the folder first came out. Ansley H. Fox himself was about 56 at the time.

[Brett Farley]

I live in MI and picked up a hand full of the blue tri-fold Sterly pamphlets with the Smith Hardware Stamp as well as several of the Savage 99 Orange & Black tri-folds with the same Smith Hardware stamp on them. That address was pretty much smack dab downtown Detroit.