Larry you have that screwed up. The Maryland corporation, Fox Gun Co., Balto., MD., U.S.A., operated from the summer of 1898 thru the end of 1899, building a gun based on Ansley H. Fox's Patent No. 563163 granted June 30, 1896. In January 1900, Ansley's partners incorporated a new company, Baltimore Arms Co., under the laws of West Virginia. Ansley left to become a professional trap shooter for Winchester. Baltimore Arms Co. built a new factory a short distance away from where the Fox plant was and built a gun of Frank A. Hollenbeck's design, Patent No. 643601, granted Feb. 13, 1900. Ansley was neither an officer or director of Baltimore Arms Co. All the assets of the Fox Co. were transfered to Baltimore Arms Co. but whether Ansley had any stake in it or not I've never found. For a while there in the early 1900s four companies were building guns of Hollenbeck design -- Baker Gun & Forging Co., Syracuse Arms Co., Baltimore Arms Co., and the Hollenbeck Gun Co.
By 1902 Ansley had moved to Philadelphia and in November 1902, incorporated Philadelphia Arms Co. under New Jersey law.
Last edited by Researcher; 04/14/09 03:31 PM.
