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11-06-2024, 09:09 AM | #13 | ||||||
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The serial number is 202125 and the gun matches the factory card. No way to tell if its right without a careful inspection of the gun. My feeling is it has been recase colored and reblued. I'm very doubtful it's a real 20ga HE. Tony knows his Fox guns.
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11-06-2024, 09:17 AM | #14 | |||||||
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Hmmm… I didn’t consider it might have been faked when it was refreshed. .
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11-06-2024, 10:31 AM | #15 | ||||||
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The RIA ad said the gun was upgraded and renumbered. The CSMC ad left out that information.
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11-06-2024, 11:57 AM | #16 | ||||||
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Whoever bought this out from under me saved me a lot of grief. Quote from RIA catalog:
"This gun has been upgraded and renumbered from its original Sterlingworth configuration to closely resemble a rare 20 gauge Super-Fox. Chambers measured 2 3/4" with ejectors, chokes measured full/full, and 14 1/8" LOP." Fools rush in.... |
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11-06-2024, 12:47 PM | #17 | ||||||
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RIA sold 202124 in their May 2023 auction --
202124 01 30-inch HE-Grade, BARRELS NOT GUARANTEED - SEE TAG.jpg 202124 03.jpg 202124 04.jpg Another totally refinished gun. |
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11-06-2024, 01:51 PM | #18 | ||||||
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Is this the same gun that sold on Gunbroker last week? I had decided (in my own mind) that that gun was not a fake. It sold before I could call the seller and get him to measure the frame dimensions. I didn't realize until after the sale that the dimensions of an HE 20 gauge frame were different from a Sterlingworth 20 gauge frame.
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11-06-2024, 01:58 PM | #19 | ||||||
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I am pretty sure it is the same gun. Can't compare the serial numbers but he left side of the stock has a distinctive light colored vertical curl which looks to be present in the same place in both pictures.
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11-06-2024, 06:39 PM | #20 | ||||||
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Could someone explain what "re-numbered" means? Are we talking serial number??
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