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Unread 08-03-2024, 10:58 PM   #11
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My 12-gauge, which letters to 1918, has the same forearm checkering pattern as your gun --

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but this gun three digits higher serial number has a different pattern --

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B-/BE-Grade forearm checkering patterns are one of the most variable things in Ansley H. Fox shotguns.
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Unread 08-03-2024, 11:11 PM   #12
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Lots of variety in patterns I guess. What treasures they are for sure!
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As long as we’re posting pictures…
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Very nice, Chris. I also have a Fox BE, though mine is a 12 ga. with 32" barrels. It is among my favorite of all my Fox guns. Yours is gorgeous!

Mine is not suited as well for quail and such as yours, but does a fine job on gadwalls on a rare, snowy, central Georgia morning.

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That is a lovely BE Fox! And just right to carry for birds (known as quail to none Southerners). I can't find a photo of my early CE two barrel set 12 gauge (with the most beautiful wood on a straight grip), but here are a few of some bird getters from my meager arsenal.
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Chris, What a beautiful gun. Love those Fox BE’s.
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Wow Chris, that's a very nice gun and in 16 gauge to boot. Nice engraving on the barrels too.
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Great looking Foxes, all of them! I'm not positive, but somewhere I heard the B grade wasn't as common as other grades, is this true? I heard talk that years of production were minimal?
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Great looking Foxes, all of them! I'm not positive, but somewhere I heard the B grade wasn't as common as other grades, is this true? I heard talk that years of production were minimal?
Yes, not dissimilar to the Parker PH. But they are beautiful guns nonetheless.
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A.H. Fox Gun Co. apparently decided to drop the B-/BE-Grade in late 1919. There are two retail price lists, one dated November 30th, 1919, that includes the B-/BE-Grades and one dated December 1st, 1919, with a large price increase and no B-/BE-Grade but includes the FE-Grade double and the M-Grade SBT.

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I have found both of these price lists in the 32 page "A Fox Gets the Game" pocket catalog which pictures the B-/BE-Grade. The "A Fox Gets the Game" pocket catalog that I have with a 1920 retail price list is 36 pages and doesn't picture the B-/BE-Grade. We do know from the records and observed examples that a few B-/BE-Grades were made well into the 1920s.
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