AAHE back home and ready for pheasant

Corey Barrette · 10-22-2022, 07:02 PM

Interesting, Jim. I’d like to know myself how the foxes came to be a subject for engraving. Any ideas out there?

Don Mills · 10-24-2022, 06:49 AM

Corey, I have a lithograph that is contemporary to when your gun was made. It may well have been the reference for the engraving.

Corey Barrette · 10-24-2022, 09:04 AM

That is remarkable, Don. Thank you very much for sharing.

It certainly looks like the inspiration! Any idea of the year or artist? I added another pic of the engraving and reversed the image from how it appears on the gun. I just sent you a PM as well.

The wealth of resource and knowledge in this group always amazes me. Half the fun is figuring out the story and you all do such a good job of helping to fill in known, or plausible, gaps. Thanks!

Jim Thynne · 01-02-2024, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Corey Barrette

Interesting, Jim. I’d like to know myself how the foxes came to be a subject for engraving. Any ideas out there?

If I remember there was another I saw, but I cannot be certain. The A grade 16 had fine scroll engraving as well! I sold it at the Vintage Cup years ago!

Jim Thynne · 01-02-2024, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Thynne

If I remember there was another I saw, but I cannot be certain. The A grade 16 had fine scroll engraving as well! I sold it at the Vintage Cup years ago!

The A 16 had the three fox kits on the floor plate similar to the AA shown here!