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#481562 05/26/17 03:12 PM
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lowest number a grade i know of is #1323...

could this be the first one?


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Ed, several much, much lower number guns have been well documented. Examples were clearly photographed in DGJ multiple times over the years. I've owned several A graded much earlier than this one.

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ky: do you recall any specifics? like a number less than 1000?

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Eightbore had an extra set of barrels which were numbered 35. Many of the early guns are still out there. A grades were fairly plain but truth is that a grades are the same as everything else until you get to the h grades and Sterlingworth.

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I owned lucky serial # 13 for years.


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bill: that cool...is #13 an a grade?


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I can report a C Grade, serial 100X

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Yes Ed--it's an A Grade with 30 inch barrels!


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Hal Hamilton owned serial number 2, and maybe still does. Here is a 1991 picture of Hal and Savage Historian Roe Clark holding serial number 2 --



From the very earliest Ansley H. Fox 12-gauge doubles I've handled serial number 8, a B-grade; serial number 29 a C-Grade and serial number 35 a CE "Special" grade.

The current working hypothesis is that serial numbers 1 through 3000 were made, or at least started into production, at the original A.H. Fox Gun Co. factory at Wayne & Bristol Streets, in 1905 and 06. After they moved into the Philadelphia Arms Co. factory at North 18th Street and Windrim Avenue at the end of 1906,



they started again at serial number 7000. Two guns have made the rounds with serial numbers in the 6xxx serial number range, but they are both widely considered to be upgraded fakes.

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