"Brush" gun definition?

[MaineMan]

I have a 1934 Sterlingworth with 26" barrels choked F/M but stamped "Brush" on the original box but I can't find that term in the 1937 catalog.

I'm looking at another 1912/13 SW in 12 ga. choked M/Cyl but I believe the barrel measured 28".

Is the term "brush" applied to any 26" pistol gripped SW (excepting the skeet and upland game straightgripped model)?

Likewise is the 28" barrel considered a "Field" model regardless of the open chokes?

Just curious if anyone has time to set me straight.

[yelloh564]

Fox associated a “style” with the barrel lengths of its Sterlingworths: 26″ guns were Brush styles, 28″ guns were Field styles, 30″ guns were Standard styles, and 32″ guns were Trap styles. Hope that helps, I pulled it from an article I had seen.

[MaineMan]

Many thanks for confirming...……..

[Researcher]

Brush, Field, Standard and Trap were terms which indicated the barrel length on the Sterlingworth. Those terms were used on the factory production cards throughout the life of the Sterlingworth/Fox-Sterlingworth --

The terms were used in the catalogues from the first The Sterlingworth Co. catalogue in 1910 where the guns offered were Standard and Field. By the 1911 A.H. Fox Gun Co. catalogue the Brush was added to the offerings. By 1913 the Trap was added to the offerings.

All the A.H. Fox Gun Co. catalogues included the Brush, Field, Standard and Trap terminology and the 1930 Savage Fox catalogue --

which was a paste-over on the cover of the last A.H. Fox Gun Co. catalogue. Beginning with the first Savage produced A.H. Fox catalogue the terms were gone.

I have a 1922 vintage 20-gauge Sterlingworth with 28-inch barrels choked cylinder and modified which letters as a Sterlingworth Field.