My feeling is that in refinishing, someone attempted to make an early Utica gun look like a Philadelphia gun. For years perople have said that Philadelphia guns are worth more then Utica guns. In well over 40 years of looking at these guns I've not seen the large lettering on top of the barrels on any but Utica guns. Never seen the Fox-Sterlingworth stamped on the side of the frame except on Utica guns.
And, recently we've seen a nice smallbore CE-Grade making the rounds, that a member formerly owned and it was marked Utica, but now it is marked on top of the left barrel A.H. Fox Gun Co. Phila., Pa. Which isn't the "correct" marking to co with its Chromox Steel barrel marking on the right barrel.
Maybe I'm getting skeptical in my dotage!
Last edited by Researcher; 11/19/08 01:10 AM.
