Fox Collectors

Oh that just hurts. Why, why why? A friend of mine owns a 12 ga. “C” with 28” barrels. Sadly, it left the factory with 32” barrels choked full/full. I guess that was the thing to do back then. I blame Jack O'Connor. From WW-II to the early 1970s preaching the virtues of his 26-inch barrel doubles f...

I've recorded 770 Sterlingworth as of today, 33 of them 12-gauge Skeet & Upland Game Guns, seventeen 16-gauge Skeet & Uplands and ten 20-gauge Skeet & Uplands.

Wonder if at one time the OP"s gun had an after-market single trigger, such as an Infallible or an E.D. Fulford, both of which have a screw in that area, and at some point in time was restored to double triggers?

The short answer is no. If someone with access to the records went through them and counted them up the answer is knowable. Roe Clark counted up the graded 16- & 20-gauge guns for McIntosh's book, but he didn't break out the Skeet & Uplands from other SP-/SPE-Grades for the 16-gauge. From my...

The Newsletter archive is in the "Members Only" section of the web site. Got to be a dues paying member to get there. The AHFCA has photocopies of the surviving production cards for the graded Ansley H. Fox guns A- to FE-Grades, no Sterlingworth cards, and dues paying members get one look-...

Welcome aboard. Get on the road right now and attend the Southern Side by Side starting today!! Probably the best place to start is reading through a lot of posts here on the AHFCA web site and all the info on the home page. The late Mike McIntosh's book A.H. Fox, The Finest Gun in the World is a go...

The gun is an AE-Grade "shooter" it is not a mint condition high-grade "collector's item." Make it useful to you. I had the right barrel of my favorite A-Grade 12-gauge opened to improved cylinder in 1966 and have never regretted it. My favorite 20-gauge, a 1913 A-Grade left Nort...

Actually, a closer look at my table shows three in the 259xxx range but one of those, 259708, is only marked STERLINGWORTH on the sides of the frame but has big letter Savage marking on the barrels -- 259708 07a.jpg 259708 06.jpg The transition from Philadelphia to Utica in 20-gauge Sterlingworths s...

I've only recorded two Savage 20-gauge Fox Sterlingworths with lower serial numbers. Except for the deep cut Savage checkering that gun is really all Philadelphia parts. Pretty sure the Bradley front sight isn't original.

It appears to me from the pictures I've saved, and the three that I have, that the early The Sterlingworth Co. guns in the 50xxx serial number range have smooth heads to the pin. 50471 TSC 1.jpg By 50491 we begin seeing frames with the Ansley H. Fox pointed shape of the side-panel. I don't have any ...

The gun I really wonder about is this XE-Grade that went to L.H. Hagen in Norway --
It surfaced on another web site a while back, still in Norway. Wonder if it shot any Nazis during the occupation?

Thats good. A gun with some history.

These 30-inch 20-gauges that I call "Joshua Green Guns" have been several of my Cards of the Month -- July 2010, April & May 2013, November 2014, January 2017, and February 2018. At the 2014 winter Las Vegas show, one of our members brought this gun made for Seattle Judge John B. Gordo...

I'm 99.99% certain that the A.H. Fox Gun Co. wouldn't do "custom work" on a Sterlingworth. The Sterlingworth was a "Made for Stock" to "Standard Specifications" gun to be sold over the counter at sporting goods stores & hardware stores and by mail-order houses. To g...

That stock and forearm are definitely after-market work. The Philadelphia era Sterlingworths only came in standard configurations and with a capped pistol grip stock. From the 1913 Sterlingworth folder -- 1913 Sterlingworth Folder inside, grip highlighted.jpg 1913 Sterlingworth Ejector -- 62126 01 S...