Fox Collectors

The Sterlingworth Co. marked, 12 gauge Fox pin gun, made circa 1910...It has 30" barrels, with 2 3/4" chambers...Serial # 5021x...This is one of only approx. 3000 The Sterlingworth Co. stamped guns ever made...Note the rounded frame front side panels...This feature is unlike other Fox guns, in that they have a pointed frame side panel front...Only about 100 tsc guns were made in this configuration...

Yup, that's a fact.

Ed, post a few more pictures. Your gun looks like it is in very good condition.
Jim

Jim Cloninger wrote:Ed, post a few more pictures. Your gun looks like it is in very good condition.
Jim

Would be interesting to see if they have the Wayne Junction address on the barrels.

gun is in excellent condition...

posted more pix...

philadelphia address stamped on barrel...

but not ah fox...read fox refused to have his name on plain gun...

Only about 100 tsc guns were made in this configuration...

All of them I've recorded up to 50471 have the rounded profile. About the first 200 have the Wayne Junc. address and in the 502xx range they get the Philadelphia address.

researcher, i came up with the 1 of 100 claim based upon a ten year old post from another forum...

sounds like it should now be 1 of 300, more or less?

it must be fun for you to find new info, from time to time...

Interesting, did not know that about the rounded profile on the early guns. I have ser # 52042,The Sterlingworth Co., a Philly gun. Mine does have 4 wt barrels with the 4 still visible. It also is choked cyl/mod. Havent weighed it, but probably just under 7 lbs, must have been ordered as an upland gun. It is in decent shape, someone had refinished the stock, and reinforced the head with acraglass where it meets the frame. Must have been a crack there or some problem, but seems solid now. I rarely shoot it.

The Sterlingworth Co. catalog only offers two versions, the STANDARD a 30-inch barrel gun at 7 1/2 to 7 3/4 pounds and the FIELD a 28-inch barrel gun at 7 pounds.

Mine has 28" barrels, and I believe I saw on an old post that cyl/M was one of the choke offerings on 28"

This is mine with stock head repair--I didnt do it

I have had both a 28 and a 30 inch over the years. Sold one on line and the other I sold at the NE SXS to a hunter. The 28" weighed less then 7 lbs. Both were extremely well finished inside as compared to the run of the mill Sterly.

Compliments of Ed Farrand who sent me a photocopy of this very rare catalog.