Fox Collectors

In my youth I remember my father getting wooden shell crates from sporting goods and hardware stores we frequented, but unfortunately, he made most of them into bird houses!!

Back in the day quite a circle of Seattle well-heeled sportsmen that orbited around Joshua Green, including the fire chief, judges, artists and other leading businessmen, had special ordered Ansley H. Fox 20-gauge guns with 30-inch barrels. They did a lot of their hunting at their club near Toppenis...

Western changed their Load Numbers in 1953 -- P374L became L1234.

Welcome aboard. What a wonderful family heirloom. The A.H. Fox Collectors Association, Inc. has photocopies of the surviving production cards for A- to FE-Grade guns. Dues paying members get a jpeg of one card per year as a membership benefit and can get more for $25 via paypal. A few years ago, Sav...

Lovely that some Gomer Xed out that pesky "BARRELS NOT GUARANTEED-SEE TAG" roll stamp.
Still waiting for someone to come up with the Tag!!

From the 1939 introduction of the Model B to 1946 they have the Utica address on the barrels. In 1947 Savage consolidated their arms making operations at their old J. Stevens factories at Chicopee Falls, Mass. and the plant at Utica went to making products for the post-war housing boom. From 1949 to...

Probably 1907 or 8, but only about ten production cards below 9640 survive.

Here is one I hadn't seen happen before --

https://www.shotgunworld.com/threads/da ... st-4994548

In this picture in The Upland Shooting Life, it looks like a Fajen or Bishop restocked Sterlingworth.

The ad I showed above is from an 1884 E.C. Mechum Arms Co. catalog. This ad is from an August 1893, Chas. J. Godfrey paper --

The Headricks had all six after they convinced me to sell them my really minty No. 24!! They're collection was then sold to Dana and then auctioned by Julia's after he died.
There is also the SPANISH EDITION No. 24S that one of our members sent me some pictures of.

At one of the Remington Society Seminars that I attended one of the presenters had some of the shipping records for Schuyler, Hartley & Graham. Those records showed they shipped hundreds of the converted Springfields to St Louis and Kansas City dealers and other points west for every Remington, ...

My family also has one of the real "guns that wone the west" as Jeff. The Civil War Springfield musket converted to a shotgun. IMG_0349.JPG Civil War Springfield altered to shotgun.jpg That is the gun the average sod buster had, not a $17 Winchester or Colt!! Ours had belonged to a family ...

I do not remember my first shooting. My parents didn't believe kids treated BB guns and air rifles with enough respect, so I never got one. My first rifle was a Winchester Model 67 single shot .22LR that my father had dressed up by his uncle Art, a Seattle area gunsmith, with a black forearm tip, gr...

Beginning with the 1911 A.H. Fox Gun Co. Campfire Catalog they began putting the List Price and Net Price in the catalogs -- 1911 Campfire Catalogue No. 24 pg 5.jpeg This is probably more minutia than anybody wants, but I misspoke above. Actually, in that I don't have a 1909 (No. 22) or 1910 (No. 2...