Ten years ago I helped sell a 20 ga. Fox XE in original but used condition after the owner, who was 100, was no longer capable of shooting it (formely her dad's gun) and her family feared she might have a moment when she would shoot someone who probably didn't need shooting. She lived on a local barrier island mostly by herself until she was 103 and then moved to assisted living. She died on her birthday at 108. She had kept it next to her bedroom door and would occasionally take pot shots from her second story bedroom window at racoons in her yard. The family turned the gun over to a local antique dealer who took it to a gun shop and was offered $750 because it was said to be "unsafe" to shoot. The family smelled a rat,and asked me for help. We had the late Jim Kelly inspect it and pronounce it fit and a Callahan letter praised it's original condition after seeing it as he had an opportunity to see it. It was professionally photographed and sold on GB with no reserve starting at a penny. The hammer fell at just over $24K. Gil
