Ah fox sterlingworth

[Toby Espy]

Bought a ah fox sterlingworth couple days ago 12 gauge barrels measure 25 1/16 but don’t appear to be cut could use a new stock inside barrels are bright and shinny just woundering about the odd barrel length any ideas? Thanks
Serial # is 84338

[Researcher]

They have been cut. An entry-level gun, made for stock, to standard specifications, wouldn't be leaving the factory with odd length barrels. The only way to know for sure what barrel length the gun left North 18th Street with would be a letter from Cody for $77 plus postage.

[Toby Espy]

Is that in phila pa?

[Researcher]

Yes. North 18th Street in the Germantown area of Philadelphia.

The first A.H. Fox Gun Co. factory in Philadelphia was at Wayne & Bristol Streets, in 1905-06. In late 1906, Ansley H. Fox bought the factory that had been built for Philadelphia Arms Co. at the 4600 block of North 18th Street & Windrim Ave., ground broken in August 1903. By 1906 Philadelphia Arms Co. was in receivership and was sold at a Sheriff's Sale July 3, 1906.

Sheriff's Sale Tuesday July 3, 1906.jpg

The factory was bought by Philadelphia lawyer William MacGeorge Jr. On October 2, 1906, MacGeorge sold the factory to Ansley H. Fox, and later that year the A.H. Fox Gun Co. moved in.

1907 Postcard front.jpg

In 1926, the Godshalks that took over the A.H. Fox Gun Co. in 1912, moved the shotgun manufacturing into a new factory in the 4700 block of North 18th Street.

Fur-Fish-Game October 1927.jpg

[Toby Espy]

Thanks for the info