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Dr Bob, that is some nice engraving, I like the realistic scenes and the acorns on the standing breech. I take it that it doesn't fall into a normal grading chart?
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12-11-2020, 09:34 AM | #54 | ||||||
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No, it is not graded. This was also before the first recorded Optimus. The serial number, 10,000, may have some significance as the very first Lefever hammerless was 5000.
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12-11-2020, 10:10 AM | #55 | ||||||
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Turn-of-the-century price comparisons
https://docs.google.com/document/pub...agUSXhewGB03SE
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12-11-2020, 10:37 AM | #56 | ||||||
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Remarkable effort Dave and Drew. It is really appreciated.
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12-11-2020, 02:39 PM | #57 | ||||||
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This isn’t anywhere near the same level as others have shared, but I liked the engraving on this trigger guard so much it made me buy the gun. It is a German percussion sxs 15 gauge with 34” barrels. I just loved the fact that there was a picture of someone loading his gun(with a ramrod) and his dog by his side…right on the trigger guard!
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The A.H. Fox Gun Co. catalogs from 1905 to the 1908 "Campfire" catalog showed list prices -- A - Grade ...... $50 B - Grade ...... $75 C - Grade ......$100 D - Grade ..... $200 F - Grade ..... $500 Ejectors ........$15 By the 1911 A.H. Fox Gun Co. "Campfire" catalog they were publishing both the "List Price", the same as 1908, and the actual "Net Price." They also published an Export Edition of the catalog with only the "List Prices" but with a little salmon color insert giving the "Net Prices." By the 1913 A.H. Fox Gun Co. "A Fox Gets The Game" catalog they only give the prices that were the "Net Prices" in the 1911 and 1912 catalogs. A - Grade ...... $37.50 B - grade ...... $50 C - Grade ......$70 D - Grade ..... $140 F - Grade ..... $350 Ejectors ........$12 By 1915 Ejectors dropped to $7.50 and C-grade and above were only offered with ejectors. Prices started up during 1916, and by the February 1st, 1920, Price list the were -- A - Grade ...... $68.25 AE- Grade ..... $80.75 CE- Grade ......$115.00 XE- Grade ......$175.00 DE- Grade ..... $275.00 FE- Grade ..... $500.00 |
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