A little different AE

[fnmucci]

[jolly bill]

fnmucci,

Another beauty!

Would you put some more film in your camera and show us more. Any details about the gun you'd like to share? (Hope so.)

Thanks for your pictures.

You obviously have good taste in guns, ie, Fox's.

Jolly

[fox-admin]

Nice appears to be a Savage era A

[fnmucci]

Correct savage but very philly. Check out the barrels a little different finish. Plus a lot more features. Gun was shipped to front office

[Silvers]

Those fancy engraved "wedding bands" on the breeches are cool looking and imo add a lot to the looks of the gun. Factory work that I've seen occasionally on Savage era barrels. Latest one was on a 12-gauge Super-Fox.

[vaturkey]

That one appears to have been a closet gun for the most part. Very very nice.

[fnmucci]

Part 2 AE20

[FOXIST]

Breech ball filed like X or higher grade. only the third A grade I have seen with that feature.

[fnmucci]

Very good Foxist now part 3

[67galaxie]

That is identical to my gun

[setterspell]

Vent rib? Verrry interesting.

[Researcher]

As scarce as they are, and as expensive as they were at the time, customers sure did not flock to these low frame, flatish, Savage-era, Fox vent ribs. Seems like we see a hundred vent ribbed Ithaca NIDs with their high frame to every Fox vent rib we see. Savage only pictured the vent rib for doubles in the 1931 to 1934 retail catalogs, and the pictures show a ramp like the Parker Bros. vent rib?!?

Vent Rib as shown in the 1931 to 1934 Fox Catalog

There weren't many folks willing to spring for a $32.50 option on a $57 or $70 gun --

June 21, 1932, Wholesale and Retail Prices

which sure makes a vent ribbed Fox the darling of collectors now.

I've never seen one with a ramp like the catalog pictures, just flat like the gun fnmucci is showing or this gent is shooting --

[67galaxie]

Nope only the markings. Mine did not have the rib and was a 1926 gun

[fnmucci]

Gun was made for the office NOV 24, 1931. full grip 2 lyman sights and vent rib on the card

[MARSHFELLOW]

fnmucci,

Thanks for posting pix of your gun.... I had overlooked this thread until this morning. Really like the barrel breech engraving & the flourish on the rib extension. Lovely condition.
Is it a 12ga gun? I believe yours is only the 2nd Fox vent rib gun with a splinter forend that I have seen, the others all wearing beavertails. Gives the gun a very nice look.

Researcher, I agree with you, I have never encountered a Fox vent rib gun with the "ramp treatment" either.

tjw