Fox Collectors

That is too late for Johnson's Illinois Gunsmiths which I have. You may want to check with Michael Petrov as that would be within his time frame of research. He has knowledge of quit a few Chicago based gunsmiths.

Dave,

See my response to your post on doublegunshop.

America's Munitions 1917-1918 , report of Benedict Crowell, the Assistant Secretary of War, Director of Munitions, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919. On page 220 where he discussed the Very Flare Pistol -- "In August 1918, we let contracts for 135,000 of the 25-mm pistols and for ap...

This is a 1891 British chart of recommended minimums. http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/shotgun_general/1891_british_wall_thickness.jpg http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/shotgun_general/Dscn0034.jpg A Skeet's gauge: http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.asp...

Mike,

Very nice set of Ads.

Pete

Factory records go back to 1906, but there are gaps. The only way is to tell is order a letter. If the record does exist and the gun is of standard configuration about the only information you will get is the original consignee, ship date, grip style, DAH, chokes, barrel length, weight, and LOP. Wh...

Dave, Very nice, good stuff to see. On a side note, you can use a digital camera with a macro setting as well. FRBIT, Thanks. I have been researching the Aubrey / Meriden guns. In the process I got curious about what other guns Sears was selling and the pricing. Over the years, they seemed to have s...

This is from the 1921 Sears Catalog http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/Fox%20Sterlingworth/1921SE.jpg Fox Poster - not sure of the year http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/Fox%20Sterlingworth/FOXP1.jpg 1916 http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/Fox%20Sterlingworth/...

The mark of Sanderson http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/Lefever%20G/IMAGE11.jpg Here is the history of Sanderson http://www.sandersonsteel.com/200_years.htm This is the mark of Delcour, a Belgian maker http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/Lefever%20G/DELCOUR.jpg http://www.l...

I did a little fix....

Two barrels and no forearm shown..... with "STFRLINGWORTH" on the receiver. Guess it may be worth it for the barrels, if they will fit a Fox.

Pete

They never tell us that!! The text in the catalogue says "in accordance with European government proof houses." http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c181/tintype1/1906_Service_Loads_Liege.jpg By this point Liege was proofing 80% above service load. This would have been in-line with the Engli...

Seems if they can make paper Dixie cups for 2-3 cents apiece, someone could make a paper wad with a shot cup. Heck, Winchester held onto their revolutionary Mark V plastic shot wrapper at least until 2004; maybe they're still using it in promo loads. Seems a paper shot wrapper would improve pattern...

Researcher wrote:Looks like Fox paper is dirt cheap -- check out what the 1903 Syracuse Arms Co. catalogue just went for --

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=021

Wow...

Pete