Quail engraving on action bottom

[birdawg]

I noticed the nice quail ( or is it some other bird ?) engraving on the bottom of the 20 ga FE sold at auction and wondered if there had been other Fox guns recorded or seen with quail or other birds (other than ducks) on the bottom of the action? I know of one with Mountain quail, are there others?

[ROMAC]

My late B 16 gauge has quail as do the other late B's but not like the FE.

[birdawg]

Thanks for posting those. I should have said standing quail.

[terc]

Birddawg, To me that looks like a mother grouse and chicks, not a quail. Either way its great.
Dave

[birdawg]

Birddawg, To me that looks like a mother grouse and chicks, not a quail. Either way its great.
Dave

With those tail feathers you could be right. I wonder what other unusual engravings are out there?

[Researcher]

Here is an FE-Grade 16-gauge picture I have in my files --

16-ga FE 09.jpg (70.27 KiB) Viewed 5529 times

There are FE-Grades like this one that were ordered with all scroll --

and similarly this DE-Grade --

[birdawg]

[quote="Researcher"]Here is an FE-Grade 16-gauge picture I have in my files --

16-ga FE 09.jpg

Thanks Dave, So were those birds normal on FE's ?

I guess FE's would be a small sample lot in any gauge.

[fox-admin]

XE 24466 12ga

[birdawg]

Thanks Craig, That is a nice one.

[Researcher]

Check The Double Gun Journal, Volume Fourteen, Issue 2, pages 104 and 106, for the game scene of three grouse with one on a log on the late "Pop" Headrick's FE-Grade 13291, and Julia's Fall 2010 catalog, Lot #1129, for Teddy's F-
Grade 13292 with a similar game scene. While the game scenes on the bottoms of the receivers are essentially the same, note how different the scroll and foliate engraving on the trigger plates are.

[vaturkey]

XE 24466 12ga

I love that.