A Fine Collectors Day in Western NY

[fox-admin]

We had our 3rd Annual Collectors Day at our duck club in western NY. This year we had a fantastic array of guns, 5 stand shooting and a delicious steak dinner.
We keep adding to the group as fellow collectors become known by way of the collector forums. Just a few pictures of some of the Foxes on view.

[Stan Hillis]

What a great bunch of Foxes! Was it a "Fox only" gathering? If not, there must have been a lot of other very nice American doubles, if the pics of the Foxes are any indication.

Thanks for taking the time to post those. Sounds like the gathering was a lot of fun.

SRH

[fox-admin]

Stan go to the Parker site I posted the Parker pictures on that forum.

[Stan Hillis]

Will do. Thanks.

SRH

[vaturkey]

Amazing display. I would have had a hard time just not camping out at the table and keeping the drool from going out of each side of my mouth.

[jolly bill]

Here's the link to Craig's thread on the PGCA site. It's in the public part of their site so anybody can access it. There are more pictures, etc. posted there.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19627

[birdawg]

A great display of wonderfull foxes.
Thanks for sharing the eye candy.

[Mike of the Mountain]

BEAUTIFUL!!! Thanks Craig!!

[eightbore]

It's a way better display than you will see at the Vintagers.

[67galaxie]

Oh those are great! Thanks for sharing

[SmithShady]

Whoa! What a display!

[Researcher]

Great display. What is the story on the 1922 DE-Grade where the sear pin appears to be a screw?

[fox-admin]

Dave no mention of the screw treatment on the factory card but we just discovered a second DE 12ga with a close serial number that has the same screw, no mention on that card either.
I was thinking maybe Becker had a hand in making both guns????

[jolly bill]

Great display. What is the story on the 1922 DE-Grade where the sear pin appears to be a screw?

Dave/Researcher,

That's the 3rd late style DE 12 that I have seen that had that feature on the sear pin. One not too long ago on the internet that Craig has pictured above and another one that I seen at the January Las Vegas gun show about 10 - 12 years ago, maybe longer. That was a very minty gun - I don't have any other details on that one.

The one shown above is SN 25989. And I don't think there is anything on the card to indicate special treatment. I'm reluctant to dis-assemble the gun to see if it's a standard pin but slotted or there are threads on it. And yes, according to the Roe Clark letter, it was shipped to A&F on Feb. 22, 1922 but Griffin and Howe apparently don't have A&F records for 1922.

Bob Beach did a great research letter on the gun including sending me a copy of the A&F gun log page 60 "Fox Inventory" beginning "7-30-29". Interesting to note, that "A. H. Fox Gun Co." consigned several high end guns to A&F as shown on that copy. In it are 3- DE12's, 1- DE16, 1-DE20, 1- FE12 and 2 -ME's. Serial numbers are removed except 25989 so don't know exactly what they were. Of those, only 2 DE12's were sold. The rest of them were returned to Fox. The economy in late 1929 was kinda iffy so maybe understandable they weren't sold.

Back to the slotted sear pin, anybody else seen this on a Fox?

[Researcher]

I also saw that one in Las Vegas a decade or so ago, and have the serial number of that gun at home, but I just flew up to Kodiak yesterday, so it will be late September before I can look that up.