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Re: TR's Fox on the auction block.
MarketHunter #200983 08/28/10 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted By: MarketHunter
Keith,

I sent you a PM here on the site. Did you not get it?


Destry


Is that what that little flashy thing was at the top of the screen? Somehow, I missed it. PM Sent--sorry!

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Re: TR's Fox on the auction block.
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I don't remember where the Holland rifle is today. Maybe it is still in the family. The Fred Adolph double rifle is in the National Firearms Museum a few feet from the Invincibles.
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Originally Posted By: eightbore
I don't remember where the Holland rifle is today. Maybe it is still in the family. The Fred Adolph double rifle is in the National Firearms Museum a few feet from the Invincibles.


The Fred Adolph double rifle has a interesting and tragic history from before TR had it. I don't believe that this info has been published yet. If I ever get caught up I may tackle that project.


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Re: TR's Fox on the auction block.
Michael Petrov #200999 08/28/10 03:39 PM
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The H&H 500/.450 and the Fred Adolph Combo, along with some other Roosevelt guns were in the Richard P. Mellon Collection until 1985 when they were bought by Greg Martin. Soon after that an African safari was set up with TR IV, Larry Wilson, and Martin, among others. They retraced some of the hunting grounds originally traversed by TR's 1909-10 safari and they used TR's old guns. The safari was filmed for a movie called "IN THE BLOOD"(1990). There was a big grass fire that trapped part of the party in a Land Cruiser. The Fred Adolph gun, Kermit's Model 1895 Winchester and a Colt SAA were strapped in the Land Cruiser when the fire overwhelmed it and the guns were destroyed. Hunter/Guide, Bilu Dean was killed.
You can read about this story in the new B&C Club book, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, HUNTER-CONSERVATIONIST".
http://www.boone-crockett.org/store/inde...p;action=detail
The H&H was sold at auction a few years ago for several hundred thousand dollars.

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Re: TR's Fox on the auction block.
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This is the Adolph lost in the fire, picture and note from Fred Adolph's personal papers.


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The July trivia questions on the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership site is "Where can you go to see T.R.’s famous .500/.450 H&H double-rifle?" http://www.trcp.org/

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Re: TR's Fox on the auction block.
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thanks for posting. lots of very interesting and valuable stuff there. i like that big 8br parker bros. cool
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Drew and Jagermeister, I seem to have missed the location of the big H&H rifle and info about the eight gauge Parker. Help me.
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Originally Posted By: eightbore
Drew and Jagermeister, I seem to have missed the location of the big H&H rifle and info about the eight gauge Parker. Help me.

those plain twist barrels look pretty good for something made before my drandpa was born.

it appears to be in very good mechanical order. i bet big bertha closes like a vault at fort knox. smirk

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