Who Engraved Teddy's F-Grade

[Researcher]

This was posted over on Trapshooters.com by a great-great-great grandson of Theo Glahn.

This appears to be the same picture used for the F-/FE-Grade in the "Campfire" Catalogues No. 24 and 25 (1911 & 1912) --

and also the center spread in the 1915 - 16 "A Fox Gets the Game" catalogues --

For pictures of T.R.'s F-Grade, serial number 13292, see the Julia's Auction catalog October 2010 --

https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdju ... gun-40555/

For pictures of the much fancier mate to T.R.s gun, serial number 13291, see Bill Headrick's article in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Fourteen, Issue 2.

[Researcher]

Couple hours after I posted the above I was looking for something else and found this --

The Double Gun Journal, Volume Two, Issue 4, pg 104

[MARSHFELLOW]

Fantastic Dave, THANK YOU!
tjw

[Jeff S]

Thanks Dave. Nice pictures, and I enjoyed the "link". Jeff

[loggy]

Thanks Dave, I didn’t realize the gun was also on the river of doubt trip. They were lucky to have anyone or anything survive. There is an interesting book written about the trip. John

[Researcher]

The more I look at this, I'm thinking old Theo got hold of one of the A.H. Fox Gun Co. display FE-Grade signs, pasted a copy of the T.R. letter over the company name and pricing info, and inked in the "ENGRAVED BY THEO. GLAHN." in the upper right corner. The N appears to be inked over the tape holding the bits of the sign together.

Then again, maybe I just have too much time on my hands with social distancing and isolation.

[Foxnut]

I read the string on trap shooter’s forum and found it very interesting. As I shared on that forum at last year’s Spring Tulsa show one of the SXS dealers had a FE that if I remember correctly was one digit higher than Teddy’s gun. I wonder if it was also engraved by Theo. Glahn?

[Researcher]

Teddy's gun was an F-Grade 13292 --

Its mate, the much fancier FE-Grade, is serial number 13291, that was in the Pop Headrick collection and on the dust jacket of McIntosh's Best Guns and his Fox book and pictured throughout as well as covered in a Bill Headrick photo spread in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Fourteen, Issue 2.

[scaupman]

Another set of consecutive serial numbered "Special" FEs were 26096 and 26097.

Here's a couple of pics 0f #26097:

26097 FE-Special 01.jpg (45.3 KiB) Viewed 5354 times