Fox Collectors

All the 20-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth Fields I've recorded from the 2654xx through 266545 have the

PROOF TESTED--20 GAUGE
-- 2 3/4 INCH CHAMBER--
roll-stamping on the left barrel that we normally associate with late 1938 or later guns. One of those guns is 265642 that my late friend Henry of Federal Oak Farm in Southern Maryland got for his 21st birthday in late 1938. For the next fifty years it was intimate with every thorny growth and barbed wire fence in Southern Maryland from following his English Setters around after birds.
Henry had two letters from Savage confirming his guns 1938 manufacture.

Guns I've recorded from 2700xx through 2707xx don't have the chamber length roll-stamping. I haven't recorded any guns in the 267xxx, 268xxx or 269xxx serial number range.

Now as an out layer, 271104 a Fox-Sterlingworth Ejector Brush, letters as being shipped June 23, 1933, to A&F but has the chamber length roll-stamp?!?

Dave,
For your log, 266037 has the stamp. 28". NIB condition without "the B"
tjw

Dave, I will pull my Savage era 20 ga. Sterly NIB out and look at its inscription/stamping and share. Thanks for the insights.

# 266435, My Savage era SW 20 is marked as such also.
Havent shot it in a long while. Took it to the UP as a backup gun last year, but a friends little 20 Ithaca Flues broke down and I lent it to him to use there, and on to Montana where it made a good account of itself.