She's all I expected to see and more. This one is a solid project gun; the only real issue is its cracked/pinned stock. I'll have my winter work cut out for me. It's the earliest Fox I've owned. The gun has s/n 28xx and is of course 12 gauge. 30" barrels that are excellent in and out, with .035 and .040 chokes opposite the norm, .035 is on the left. The .035 choke hasn't been modified. It has a continuous taper, no short parallel section at the muzzle. The gun has twin ivories, weighs 7 pounds 11 ounces, and has decent stock dims at 1-1/2 by 2-1/2 by 14-1/4. Barrels are marked Krupp in the conventional manner and are not weight-stamped. It is an extractor gun without the outboard guide pins on the extractors. I have a scrap B grade barrel with s/n 95xx and it does have the guide pins, apparently Fox made that change in between the numbers cited here. All mechanics check out and she locks up really tight. The gun is ~102 years old and still has some cc, hard to see on the pics, muted reds, yellows and blues. She is fitted with a 7/8" thick Silvers pad, pretty deteriorated right now. The butt is curved and the pad base matches that curve.
Here are some pics of the engraving. Barrels do not have any engraving on the breeches like the scrap B grade barrel #95xx does. So, it's a little different than the ones in our Newsletter and on the website. Sort of a transition version between the earliest scroll engraved B grades, and the later ones with birds and with engraved barrel breeches.
Also I thought you gents would like to see a pic of the cool safety. Silvers
