Chuck...
Super nice Fox, great job....I agree with your comments....luckily, I've been fortunate enough in the last 50 years or so of buying guns, to never have bought one that had been 'modified' in any way...no butt pads, barrel mods, extra holes, cutts or poly's etc....if it had any modifications, I always looked elsewhere.....

I also agree with Walter about the generational thing.....

Here's a Sterlingworth with 99-100% FACTORY original colors and 99-100% FACTORY original blue made in 1929 - Philadelphia gun, I only refinished the wood......hard to find like this, but they are out there.....








Doug