We suspect it is likely to be the rarest in existence, truly one of a kind, A. H. Fox Diana Grade mock-up made as an example of what the best of the best in the Fox gun works could produce as Fox's answer to the Parker Bros. Invincible.
If this picture is of the prototype we think it is, the barrels stop at about 4" in length and it has no forend or buttstock... but its beauty transcends what a buttstock or forend could possibly lend to the concept. There are stunning pictures of it in the DGJ I referenced earlier in this thread.
Those of us who have held it in hand will never again wonder to what breadth and depth the gunmaker's art can aspire.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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