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That Sterlingworth folder in blue also exists with a $39.50 price which was in effect from June 1932 until the price was upped to $42.85 in February 1936. Savage tried a drastic price cut in 1938, and this folder was done up in orange with the $35.00 price for 1938.
I've suspected the blue folder may exist with the $36.50 price which was in effect for 1930, 31 and the first half of 1932, but I've not found one. Neither have I found any with the prices from January 1939 ($44.75) to October 1946 ($89.90). The prices were going up so fast in those last years Savage probably didn't bother.
Pat McKune is a bit proud of his copy of that brochure --
http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/a_h_fox.html
Someone must have found a load of those folders with that Smith Hardware Co. stamp on the front, as for a while they were pretty regular on ebay. The one I have has that stamp also.
That picture of "Old Mike" in these brochures really got around. It was originally with him holding a Parker next to a case of Remington Nitro-Club shells. I've also seen it with the case and shell boxes doctored to Peters, and with the case doctored to Miller High-Life and the shell boxes replaced with bottles of beer. And, of course, Savage doctored the gun to sort of look like a Fox.
Now, the real question -- What does "FOX--Faithful for over fifty years!" possibly refer to? The Ansley H. Fox gun had not quite been in production 30 years when that brochure came out. Even if you went back to the Fox Gun Co., Balto., Md., U.S.A. you'd only gain another 7 years. Ansley himself would be over fifty though.
I've suspected the blue folder may exist with the $36.50 price which was in effect for 1930, 31 and the first half of 1932, but I've not found one. Neither have I found any with the prices from January 1939 ($44.75) to October 1946 ($89.90). The prices were going up so fast in those last years Savage probably didn't bother.
Pat McKune is a bit proud of his copy of that brochure --
http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/a_h_fox.html
Someone must have found a load of those folders with that Smith Hardware Co. stamp on the front, as for a while they were pretty regular on ebay. The one I have has that stamp also.
That picture of "Old Mike" in these brochures really got around. It was originally with him holding a Parker next to a case of Remington Nitro-Club shells. I've also seen it with the case and shell boxes doctored to Peters, and with the case doctored to Miller High-Life and the shell boxes replaced with bottles of beer. And, of course, Savage doctored the gun to sort of look like a Fox.
Now, the real question -- What does "FOX--Faithful for over fifty years!" possibly refer to? The Ansley H. Fox gun had not quite been in production 30 years when that brochure came out. Even if you went back to the Fox Gun Co., Balto., Md., U.S.A. you'd only gain another 7 years. Ansley himself would be over fifty though.
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