An annual membership in the A.H. Fox Collectors Association, Inc. is $30. That includes one card look up. Additional look- ups are $25. Members who are on-line can request a look-up in the members forum, pay with pay-pal and will receive a jpeg of the card via email usually within 24 hours. Less than half of our members are on-line, and they can request by mail and receive a photocopy. We do not have the original production cards!! Some individuals talked their way into the archives at Savage Arms Corp. back in 1991, and photocopied the fronts of the graded gun cards, and probably the backs of no more than 10% of the cards. A few years ago the AHFCA received one of these photocopy sets from one of these individuals. Keep in mind these were production cards that followed the gun through the factory as it was being built. Some are oil soaked and dark. Others are faded and hard to read. Sometimes the card was filled in by someone with a very legible had and just as often not. Then consider that what we have is a photocopy of the faces of ten cards per page. The photocopy certainly wasn't optimized for each indigidual card. Therefore, we provide a jpeg or copy to the member. While we will, when requested, give an opinion as to what we think the card says, we (the board of the AHFCA) are not responsible for interpretation.
Now, speaking for myself, I don't believe that board members having ready access to these records is that big a deal, as we have yet to have a single viable nomination to run against any of us for a board position. My term is up next year, so come on!! Submit a viable nomination and run against me for this great deal we have.
Dave Noreen, Founding Board Member and Editor of the A.H. Fox Collectors Association, Inc. Newsletter.
