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Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:28 pm
by 2lo8s
Help please.
I'm looking for just the right Fox to be engraved on the floorplate of a CSMC Fox DE.
No game scenes, just deep relief scroll throughout and A.H. Fox banners on the sides.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Just a thought...
...how about the Fox pictured here?
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:00 am
by fullchoke16
If you can find it, there is an advertisement designed by Lynn Bogue Hunt for Ithaca Gun Co. that is the image of a red fox in hot pursuit of a pheasant. Researcher may know where to find it. To each his own: to my eye the Ithaca fox looks much more realistic than any portrayal on the Fox catalogs. Hope this may help.
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:19 am
by 2lo8s
This one?
Thank you for your suggestion.
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:10 am
by Researcher
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:27 am
by 2lo8s
Nice. Thanks.
I'm cracking up right now 'cause the one I googled looks so stupid next to the one you suggested.
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 12:56 pm
by vaturkey
I saw this one engraved on the receiver of a custom gun many many years ago:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Walter-Haskell- ... Sw91NTr5qv
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:33 pm
by Mike of the Mountain
The LB Hunt and the Walter Haskell images would look great on a Fox floorplate.
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:23 am
by fullchoke16
Just thought of another good piece of fox artwork. It's by Ned Smith and was on the cover of PA Game News magazine. I'm up at the camp right now but I'll look it up when I get home if you haven't settled on something else by then. Fred
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:16 pm
by bamboozler
2lo8s wrote:Help please.
I'm looking for just the right Fox to be engraved on the floorplate of a CSMC Fox DE.
No game scenes, just deep relief scroll throughout and A.H. Fox banners on the sides.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Just a thought...
...how about the Fox pictured here?
That scene
A FOX GETS THE GAME from the cover of the 1914 Fox brochure has been done previously on another custom Fox:
Although I wasn't aware of the Walter Haskell Hinton illustration until today, that scene is very similar to the Bob Strosin engraved floorplate of my custom Fox:
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:08 pm
by kgb
Go to artbarbarians.com and search for fox. Not every result will be a fox with that selection, but there will be a good number of ideas.
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:40 am
by eightbore
Who is the engraver of the gun with the 1914 scene. I am in love.
Re: Fox Floorplate Engraving
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:09 am
by vaturkey
Here's a fox on the bottom of a CSMC gun out there for sale: