George,
Another thing is that it is a shame that Mike wasted the better part of a chapter in the book on Baltimore Arms Co. He should have covered the Fox Gun Co., Balto., Md. U.S.A.,
and ended the chapter with -- In January 1900, Ansley left to be a professional shooter for Winchester, his former partners reincorporated in West Virginia, as Baltimore Arms Co. with their principal place of business Baltimore, Maryland, and proceeded to build a gun of Frank A. Hollenbeck's design.
Ansley was neither an officer or director of Baltimore Arms Co. Whether he got any stock in BAC when all the assets of the Fox Gun Co. were transfered to BAC, or if he was bought or forced out I have not been able to determin.
For the first about two and one half years that Baltimore Arms Co. was in existance, Ansley was on the road as a professional shooter for Winchester, and during that time he moved his household to Philadelphia. By November 1902, he is busy incorporating Philadelphia Arms Co. and raising capital for that venture.
The only connection of Ansley Fox to Baltimore Arms Co. that I have found was in late 1904 when he bought a great deal of the machinery and fixtures of Baltimore Arms Co. at their receiver's sale. I believe that is the equipment he used when he left Philadelphia Arms Co. in December 1904, and set up A.H. Fox Gun Co. in early 1905.
My table of observed Philadelphia Arms Co. guns now contains 56 entries with serial numbers ranging from 59 to 1845. One E-Grade (but I know there is another, just don't have the serial number), one D-Grade, three C-Grades, five B-Grades, and all the rest A-Grades. All 12-gauge, all with extractors, and all with Krupp barrels. The Philadelphia Arms Co. 1905 catalogue mentions the option of Damascus barrels on the C- and higher grades, but I've never seen a Damascus barrel PAC gun.
Dave
