Fox Collectors

Other than the Factory Letter has anyone tried to trace the history of their Fox and the story behind it and its owners?
I am sure some have had some interesting lives.

That's pretty hard to do on anything but a family gun.

I think it is difficult but not impossible. I've got a name engraved on the trigger guard of my CE (W.M. Faulk), but it's unfortunately just first initial and middle initial with a last name. I've done some searching for information, even going as far as looking in places like Ancestry.com without success. The flip side of this is something like the great research that Silvers did on that Alaskan HE two barrel set, which ended up as a Double Gun Journal article.

M.

H.H. Swift was the original owner and his name was engraved on the trigger guard of my XE. He was a lawyer from Georgia. There is actually a decent amount of information about him. Here is his picture.

When I bought my 20 ga. Sterlingworth the seller provided a Callahan letter. The serial number would suggest a 1914 date but the letter showed it being shipped in 1924.

Years later I had a smith fit a pad to the gun to lengthen the stock. No wood was cut and I still have the original butt plate. The smith told me that under the butt plate he found a slip of paper with a name and telephone number. He put it back under the new pad and didn't think to write down the information. It's still there 10 years later and I haven't removed the pad to look at it. So....I guess I have a little bit of my gun's history available to me but I've left it a mystery to be resolved some winter day in front of a roaring fire.

Let us know what you find out it should be very interesting.

My great grandfather bought my fox new. He bought it not long after he purchased the family farm outside of Philadelphia pa. He passed away in 76 it sat in his gun case until my great grandmother moved in with my aunt in 79. It then went into my uncles gun cabinet until it was given to me as a high school graduation gift in 99.

I guess I'm a lucky one to know its complete history. Although its history isnt nearly as cool as the history of some of the guns on here.

Will

zukinut wrote:My great grandfather bought my fox new. He bought it not long after he purchased the family farm outside of Philadelphia pa. He passed away in 76 it sat in his gun case until my great grandmother moved in with my aunt in 79. It then went into my uncles gun cabinet until it was given to me as a high school graduation gift in 99.

I guess I'm a lucky one to know its complete history. Although its history isnt nearly as cool as the history of some of the guns on here.

Will

I beg to differ. Personally, I'd rather have a gun that fed my ancestors than one owned by a famous hunter/writer.

Cool was a loose term. Famous writers/hunters are "cool".

I also enjoy knowing that my gun fed ancestors. Gives it that family appeal kinda thing.

Will