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I recently acquired a Fox Sterlingworth 20 Gauge double barrel shotgun. I was curious about it's year of manufacture. The Serial number is 262100 and I've been told it was made in 1929(The year Savage bought the company). This is further backed up by the fact that it has Savage Arms on one of the barrels.

The gun is in very good shape (steel and wood) and it is the type with no hammers, it has auto-extractors and single trigger. It also has an ivory mid bead sight.

Any ideas as to the value of this gun? I'm just curious, because I plan to keep it for upland game.

Thanks in advance.

Poits!
 
The refernce I have also indicates 1929.

Most of the 2o gauge Fox Sterlingworths I have run across, in good to very good condition, have been in the $ 1000 to $1,500 range, and more if most of the case colours and blue remained.

Neither the Sterlingworth, nor Sterlingworth Deluxe were offered with a factory original single trigger. Any chance you're gun might have a straight English style stock, in 26" or 28" and bored Skeet & Skeet ???

No matter, a fione Upland gun, and IMHO, preferable to an equal grade/condition Parker or LC Smith.
 
Thx for the input, Beretta Boy. The Fox has 26" barrels and a straight stock. I wouldn't know if its bored for Skeet (I'm a newbie to shotguns) but the bores seem equal, the blueing is in good shape - there are no scratches in the metal either and the stock is uniform in colour. There is also a L/R barrel selector switch, if that helps narrow it down.

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Sterlingworth 20 gauge

Fox Sterlingworth came out with with a Skeet and Upland Game Gun model that sounds much like yours. It had as options a single trigger, ejectors and an ivory mid bead. It came in 12, 16, and 20 gauge. It was a stock receiver with a straight grip stock, with 26" barrels choked skeet in the right and 1/4 in the left. It wasn't introduced until 1935 though, and your serial number is 1929. It may be that someone took the good ideas of the 1935 model and modified an earlier gun to improve the handling. Perhaps they were trying to pass it off as a S&U for the higher collector value. Either way you have a fine upland gun that is well suited for your purpose. The Fox Collector site at

http://www.foxcollectors.com/

will give you some good information. You should consider getting a factory letter for your gun. The information to do this is on this site and the charge is $30 U.S. Enjoy your new gun, I certainly would.
 
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