16g SP -- $2999 too much???

Obsessed with Doubles · Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:54 pm

Came across a 16g SP the other day. Its looks all original, except for a white-line pad.

28", DTs, PG, Splinter Forend, 85% wood & blue finish.

What's a gun like this worth? Is $2999 way too much? It seemed hight to me, but I'm not a crazed Fox collector.

Any idea how many SPs Fox made? For some reason, I seem to come across a few every year. This is my second in '08.

Thanks

OWD

Researcher · Post by **Researcher** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:16 am

I paid a bit more then that for a nice clean 16-gauge SP-Grade with a Fox-Kautzky single-selective trigger two years ago. According to Roe Clark's tabulations published in McIntosh's book there were 164 16-gauge SP-/SPE-Grades made.

There is quite a price increase from an 85% gun to a 95% gun, and probably that much again to a true 98% gun.

eightbore · Post by **eightbore** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:30 am

Dave, are the SP guns in the "graded gun" or the "Sterlingworth" section of the Fox records as compiled and marketed by Mr. Callahan? Thanks for the information.

Twice Barrel · Post by **Twice Barrel** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:18 pm

With the exception of the novelty what is the advantages of the SP versus a Sterlingworth of the same configuration and equal condition?

Researcher · Post by **Researcher** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:04 pm

They are graded guns. For most of their run the SP-/SPE-Grade sold for the same price as an A-/AE-Grade

MARSHFELLOW · Post by **MARSHFELLOW** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:50 pm

O.W.D., I am a crazed SP(E) collector and that sounds like a reasonable price for an unmolested example, especially a smallbore.

Researcher shared the facts regarding the production nicely.

Twice Barrel, I think RARITY drives the interest perhaps more than novelty when one likes a graded guns produced in very small numbers rather than "thousands". They are alot of fun to find and a pleasure to own.