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I have a serial number of a Fox shotgun a friend is contemplating buying. Can the grade be identified by just the serial #? If so, who can provide this information?
Thanks,
Chris
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I don't think so Chris.
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He can join the Fox Collectors Association and he gets one free look up if he is a paying member.Cards are missing for some of the very early guns.He can send for a letter from Callahan for a fee. Takes two months or so usually. Bobby
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From the serial list only that it IS a graded gun............beyond this you have to start paying for information........ http://doublegunshop.com/dgsnos1.htmFox & Sterlingworth Letters: John T. Callahan 53 Old Quarry Road Westfield, MA 01085
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Thanks everyone. I'll try to get more information if possible. I've never owned a Fox shotgun and really don't know much about them. This is supposed to be a higher grade though my information is sight unseen.
Chris
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Chris,
The Fox collectors site has a nice identification section on their site. You or your friend should be able to look at that site and identify his gun.
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Yes- if your friend has come into a "graded" AH Fox shotgun in any of the 3 gauges- no matter the trigger/ejector/extractor set-up he has himself one very fine shotgun indeed..There is also great American history in those guns- first Baltimore, than the older German town area in Philadelphia, and then the final production at Utica, NY under the Savage-Stevens aegis.
I have seen and handled a CE grade 16 made in Phila- straight grip, splinter forearm, single trigger, 28" barrels, Silvers pad- all original from what I can tell, and it makes me think of Sophia loren- all graceful lines and flowing curves in the right places and indeed, timeless beauty.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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I think Jim Carmichel said it best when he wrote:
"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."
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