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.
