I'm not a AH Foxist, but like the LeFevers and Ithacas and Remington doubles I don't own or shoot, I appreciate them as being a very fine American made shotgun. But one of my hunting pals has two: a BE 12 with 30" Krupp barrels and a AE 16 made after the move to Utica- I have shot both of them and they are fine well balanced guns, I can see why the late writer McIntosh liked them.
My pal gets the AH Fox Collectors newletter, upon return from a morning not seeing any Geese (lotsa sandhill cranes though) we went back to his place for coffee, his copy had just arrived and I skimmed it.
I was under the impression that Teddy (also my favorite former president of all time) didn't want ejectors, so this would be a Grade F (highest grade in 1909?) but the front page mentioned the up and coming Julia's auction and listed it as a FE (ejector gun) which, if the case, would enhance the ultimate hammer-down price I should guess.
Can any of the AH Fox cognoscenti here clarify this please? My guess for the final price- way more than the Becker AH Fox recently sold that was apparently the second Buckingham HE- at least $400K, even before the seller's premium % is factored.
