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I'd guess it should have been 8.5 lbs. I don't recall ever seeing a Sportsman as light as Remington advertised --

Cruising GI this forenoon I see the Cabela's in Green Bay has a 12-gauge 30-inch The Sportsman that their ad says weighs 5 lbs!!!

The only recoil pad being offered at the time Ansley H. Fox shotgun serial number 1894 was built was the Silver's. The recoil pad now on the gun undoubtably offers a lot better recoil absorption than the Silver's ever did.

Just what I can see looking at that picture, that doesn't look like a Savage-era checkering pattern. So, I'm thinking it may be aftermarket wood and a fault of the inletting.

Very nice well-preserved example of an early Ansley H. Fox A-Grade shotgun. In late 1904 Ansley H. Fox resigned from Philadelphia Arms Co. and moved a few blocks away to the corner of Wayne & Bristol Streets, and set up the A.H. Fox Gun Co., incorporated April 6, 1905, with much of the machinery...

We've been down this road back in February 2024 --

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What a great inheritance!! An early Gough style AE-Grade 20-gauge with a straight grip and 30-inch barrels!! Hard to get much better than that. A few years back Savage Arms sent all the Ansley H. Fox production cards to the McKracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, W...

From this Model 1912 folder circa 1914, it appears that is when they dropped the diamond from the Tournament Grades. See the bottom line in red --

Is that a Fox Sterlingworth Wildfowl that is recorded in my observed Sterlingworth tables?

Perhaps it was a time period thing like color case hardened or nitre blued forearm irons?

1912 came in a winchester case with black diamond grade on case.They must have been living. Where's the "Black"!! Time to get your eyes checked Allen. The canvas on that case says "Winchester Diamond Grade" as in a mid-1980s Model 101 from Olin-Kodensha. Diamond Grade Skeet, 198...

Are we talking a Fox-Sterlingworth Wildfowl or an L.C. Smith Wildfowl?

I have never seen anything definitive, but I'd vote no.

The table of Fox serial numbers on Doublegunshop.com indicates that for 12-gauge guns in Grades A to F the serial numbers for 1919 began at 25000 and for 1920 began at 25900. I would put little to no faith in that serial number chronology done by Lightner Library back in 1976. It is poor in the A.H...

I don't know if it was the last one or not, but 31041, the July 2019 Card of the Month, was a B-Grade, 32-inch, half pistol grip gun.