16 gauge 30" Sterlingworth

[2lo8s]

Do these colors look reminiscent of anyones restoration work in particular?





How about a value estimation of a nicely restored Sterlingworth, 16 gauge, 30" barrels?



Thank you.

[vaturkey]

IMO they are cyanide colors and could have been done by Ron's Gun Shop. They look pretty good.

http://www.ronsgunshop.com/

PS. A pure guess on value is 2K given that they are 30" barrels. If that was 100% factory I'd think $3,500 or perhaps even higher.

[Stan Hillis]

Very nice looking gun, 8s. I agree the colors look like cyanide casehardening. I would not be displeased with those at all. I also agree with the estimate given.

The 30" barreled 16 ga. Foxes may be the most beautiful of all American double guns ever built. The scale and proportions are perfection, to my eyes.

Jim Carmichael said it much better than I when he wrote this many, many years ago:

"The double-barreled shotguns made by Ansley H. Fox in his
Philadelphia factory are classics for the simple reason that
they are the most beautiful shotguns ever made in America and,
for that matter, among the most beautiful boxlock designs ever
made anywhere. Whereas the customary practice of gun invention
was to design from the inside out, often enclosing the
mechanism in a plain outer shell that required engraving or
other embellishment to be presentable, the seductive lines of
the Fox receiver suggest that it was sculpted by an artist.
Like a lush maiden shed of her arrayment, the Fox needed no
engraving to accent its sensuous contours and, indeed, the
unadorned lowest grades perhaps best showcase their elegance
of form."


SRH

[callaojoe]

Very nice!