Fox-Sterlingworth on SP-Frame

[eightbore]

I really don't know what gauge it is, because I only engraved on it for about 45 minutes. It looked like a small frame.

[Researcher]

I went in and redid some of the pictures in this thread to correct the Photobucket attempt to hold us hostage.

Great find Bill. So, that ups my 30-inch barrel SP-frame guns recorded in the 132649 to 132927 range to thirteen. I recorded 132788 at the Missoula, Montana, show a few years ago and 132790 at the Monroeville Mall show several decades ago.

[Sporrns]

Researcher, I just came home from the Easton, Maryland gun show and the Waterfowl Festival with a new to me flat frame Sterlingworth in near mint condition. It is a 30" 12 gauge, modified and full, all original, serial number 132789, my first flat frame. I met Kevin McCormack at the gun show and had a nice visit with Geoffroy Gournet today at the festival. He was working on an outrageous Fox with heavily relieved engraving. I decided to add my post to this thread so we can get up to date on flat frames. Kevin and I have been exhibiting at this show for decades and every once in a while, discover a nut like the Sterly I found this weekend.

Bill, thanks for buying that gun! You saved me a drive over and back and at least 1/2 a tank of gas. I called our friend Dave S. Sunday AM and asked him to check the table to see if the gun was still there; had it been I would have told him to buy it for me. When he told me you bought it, I was most relieved! Given my track record at certain recent auctions, you especially appreciate the fact that I have no business looking at any more Foxes anytime soon! WELL DONE!

[eightbore]

Yeah, it's a great gun, only one of several semi-great guns on that table. I had to tell The Lovely Linda that I was going shooting Sunday morning, so I could excuse my second trip across the bridge to buy the Fox. I may have to make another trip to buy the Hemingway fighting chair. It was a tossup between the chair and the Fox, but the Fox won out. I don't fish any more, so the chair is pretty useless, but it would look good in the corner of my gun room.