In inventory for a year?

[Researcher]

I have two Ansley H. Fox doubles with serial numbers 14 digits apart. One shipped in 1914 and the other in 1918. I have photocopies of the sheets Roe Clark used to count the Ansley H. Fox graded 20-gauges for McIntosh's book. There were 50 serial numbers per page. While most of the sheets have shipping dates that cover three or four years, one has shipping dates from 1928 to 1940. Pricey smallbores weren't moving very fast during the Great Depression.

[Bill Murphy]

Browning had a similar situation, with gun manufacture and sale years apart. Parker had guns out in the trade for long periods of time and then took them back when they did not sell.