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As long as we’re posting pictures…
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08-04-2024, 08:41 AM | #14 | ||||||
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08-04-2024, 09:49 AM | #15 | ||||||
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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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08-04-2024, 10:06 AM | #16 | ||||||
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Chris, What a beautiful gun. Love those Fox BE’s.
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08-04-2024, 10:58 AM | #17 | ||||||
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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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08-04-2024, 11:46 AM | #18 | ||||||
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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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08-04-2024, 11:59 AM | #19 | ||||||
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Yes, not dissimilar to the Parker PH. But they are beautiful guns nonetheless.
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08-04-2024, 03:05 PM | #20 | ||||||
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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.
1919 Retail Price Lists.jpg 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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