Fox Collectors

While browsing the auction sites a few weeks back I found this beauty in a gun shop in Maui.The few photos looked
pretty good but I had never bid in an on-line auction before but thought this might be a good place to start.Imagine
my surprise as I was the only bidder.Perhaps the cut stock and funky recoil pad kept others away but I saw a gun
that would look a lot better with a minimal amount of work.It's a 1910 B-grade with ejectors.Plenty of case color
remaining for me,the lever sits way to the right and the ejectors work perfectly.Can't say as there is a lot of use
for a shotgun on Maui but I know there is decent bird hunting on the big island.
Got a copy of the factory card,it was completed on March 29th,1910.Built for stock it has 30' Krupp steel barrels with
ejectors but unfortunately the stock had been shortened.Having a period pad put on will solve that problem and I
think that will be covered up with a leather slip-over too. I sent several pictures to Researcher to post for all to see.
I really like this gun!Sure wish I knew how it ended up so far from home.

You can now post the pictures here directly yourself.

http://foxcollectors.com/My%20Forum/php ... f=2&t=7296

The Remington Society forums and the PGCA site also have this feature. No longer a need for a photo hosting site. Photobucket has attempted to hold their users hostage for third-party hosting, so everything in my account has been deleted.

My first CE-Grade Ansley H. Fox came out of a pawn shop on Hotel Street in Honolulu back in 1971. It lettered to a dealer in San Francisco, so pretty easy to imagine it getting to the islands. One of the finest Parker A1 Specials was for Wah King Thom, a wealthy customer in Hawaii.

That's a beauty! Thanks for posting the picture. Jeff

Great gun! Congrats!

I just noticed something kind of neat about the last two Foxes I picked up.The early B-grade I got off Gunbroker letters as
having been completed on March 29th,1910 and the Sterlingworth pin gun I found at a show last year was completed on
March 28th,1911 almost exactly one year later.Installed a period Galazan pad on the B (my first attempt at such a thing)
and must say it turned out pretty good.A belt sander and some patience is all it took.

Great gun SPE1 The early (1st gen) B grades meet my definition of true American Folk Art, what with their sometimes unpredictably ornate engraving patterns and execution, along with their "kiwi-like" small game birds. Kevin