Grade B No. 5 12 gauge with original tag

[Sporrns]

What an iconic gun! Single digit SN, ball grip, early style engraving, and hang tag to boot!! You have definitely made my day!!! Thanks so much for sharing, Kevin.

[iwill]

Thanks for all of the excitement. Responding to ROMAC's question- My grandfather was a country doctor in NJ who loved collecting guns amongst many other things. While it is possible that he was the original owner (my grandmother was from Philadelphia) I imagine he bout the gun sometime in the 40's. I will inquire further with my family to try to get a clearer picture.

I tried to get photos of some of the rest of the gun (I had to look up what some of the terms were, sorry I am new to all of this). I am happy to try to shoot any of it that anyone is interested in seeing, just let me know.

Thanks,
Ian

[iwill]

[Jim Cloninger]

Fantastic example of an early A.H.Fox B grade!
Jim

[Researcher]

FWIW here is the B-Grade page from the first A.H. Fox Gun Co. catalog --

[Fox20obsessed]

WoW what an early gun... super nice! You are a lucky guy!

[49packard]

Fantastic Fox, Thank you for sharing!

[vaturkey]

That is a way cool safety.

[setterspell]

Wow! What a treasure! Thank you for sharing and welcome!

[ylwdog]

What a WONDERFUL piece of Fox History ! THANKYOU for sharing. jb

[fn16ga]

INCREDIBLE GUN !!!!!!

[Foxnut]

Fantastic gun and great that it belonged to your grandfather and father! #5...Wow!!

[Stan Hillis]

That safety button is over the top. I've got to have one. Guess I'd better get to work with the files.

Thanks so much for the pics. Great gun

SRH

[Don Ay]

great gun with great history thanks for sharing it !

[JasonPeck]

Very similar to Fox #8 B-grade that I "owned" briefly a couple years ago.

Does #5 also sport Krupp "Heavy Weight" barrels?

Makes me wonder how many B-grades were made at the very beginning.