Fox Collectors

Jim,

There are a few years of VL&A records in the archives of Griffin & Howe but since I have retired there is no one there who can check the records. What is the serial number and the year of manufacture of your gun?

Bob Beach

Griffin & Howe (retired)

Number 400370 had originally been "Consigned" by Fox. It was not unusual for American gun companies to consign firearms at A&F that would otherwise sit in a warehouse. The disposition of 400370 was to "A.H. Fox Gun Co." along with four other Foxes over a period of about 2 mon...

Fox ME 400370 was received in inventory at Abercrombie & Fitch on September 10, 1929. The stock dimensions recorded were 1 7/16 x 1 1/2 x 14 7/8.

Number 400493 (Grade ME) was also received at A&F on the same day.

Bob Beach
Griffin & Howe, Inc.

Back in The Double Gun Journal , Volume Twelve, Issue 4, there is an article by Dr. Paul Brown, from down in southwest Virginia, about his late Savage-era AE-Grade that his parents gave him for graduation gift. That gun is serial number 31635. Back in 1928, four XE-Grades were started in production...

Craig, Regarding the gold oval on Fox 34646 on page 47, the surname of the owner with initials "L.P.W." was Warren. Mrs. Warren consigned the Fox for sale at A&F in 1947. It was sold to S.D. Ripley. I do not have the given names of Mr. Warren but could probably find them if it was impo...

Sorry to be late to this party but I've been busy. I can't believe that with over 55,000 serial numbers that I've made available you guys aren't taking advantage of the information that I've been archiving for the past 2 years. Fox 300004 is listed on the Research page of the Griffin & Howe site...

Some of you may know that Griffin & Howe has the custodianship of the Von Lengerke & Detmold gun sales records (1901 to 1929) and the Abercrombie & Fitch gun sales records (1929 to 1977). Recently I have discovered that G&H is also in possession of a few of the record books for Von L...