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I have just repatriated a 16ga. Fox Sterlingworth that, in a moment of outrageous weakness and stupidity, I sold to a friend and shooting companion. It's not the first time I've done this but this is one of the few occasions I've had the opportunity to reverse the process. It cost a little more but was a bargain. I got what I let slip away.
It's a lovely late Utica gun and my question is: 'What year was it made?'.
I have McIntosh's book but it doesn't give this info. I realize that I could pay for the information but my guess is that one of you has what I want.
The serial number is: 376189.

From my 20 or so years of recording serial numbers of observed Sterlingworths, guns in the 375,xxx, 376,xxx, 377,xxx and 378,xxx range certainly exist. On the 12-gauge Fox-Sterlingworths they estimate the highest serial number for 1937 as 145000, for 1938 as 150000 and for 1939 as 155000. A serial number list for the Savage Model Ninety-Nine can be found in the Blue Book of Gun Values. For most other models, only a range of years is given. More information may be available at the. SAVAGE MODEL NINETY-NINE SERIALIZATION Serial Numbers At Year End 1899 to 1950: 10,000 1899 13,400 1900 19,500 1901 25,000 1902 35,000 1903 45,000 1904 53,000 1905 67,500 1906 73,500 1907 81,000 1908 95,000 1909 110,000 1910 119,000 1911 131,000 1912 146,500 1913 162,000 1914 175,500 1915 187,500 1916 193,000 1917 N/A 1918 212,500 1919 229,000 1920 237,500 1921.

1939 or later..my guess would be a war years gun.

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374800-1938, 378481- highest number, from Doublegunshop.com

Thanks for the help. It looks like this was one of the last Sterlingworths. It's in great shape..traces of case color on the outside of the receiver, 90% on the inside, virtually all the case color on the FE metal, the barrels have at least 95% of the bluing with perfect bores. It has 28' bbls choked M-F?. The stock has been professionally redone with an Old English decelerator pad added. It needed both and it's what I wanted.
I don't view these guns as heirlooms to begin with. If it were a grade gun, I might not have had the stock refinished and the pad added. It weighs 6 lbs., 10 oz. What a shooter. I've been loading some 7/8 oz shells and plan to do shoot over the weekend.
You can tell that this gun has not been shot. The firewall has practically no shell markings and the internal case color has faded but is all there. The only discernible wear is the case coloring on the outside of the receiver and, to a much lesser extent, the barrel bluing.

Tom 28,
Sounds like a real nice gun, congrat! Have fun this weekend with her.
Pine Creek

The only way to know for sure when your gun was made/shipped is to get a letter on it from the Savage historian --

Fox serial numbers are in blocks by gauge and whether Sterlingworth or graded gun --

12-gauge Graded Guns -- 1 to 35280
12-gauge Sterlingworths -- 50000 to 161556
16-gauge Graded Guns -- 300000 to 303875
16-gauge Sterlingworths -- 350000 to 378481
20-gauge Graded Guns -- 200000 to 203974
20-gauge Sterlingworths -- 250000 to 271304
Single Barrel Trap Guns -- 400000 to 400568

I have some real problems with the published Fox serial number chronology, which was originally put out in 1976 by Lightner Library.

For 16-gauge Fox-Sterlingworths they are showing productionof 500 (1931), 600 (1932), 600 (1933), 700 (1934), 1100 (1935), 1500 (1936), 700(1937) and then 1600 for 1938. Then the serial numbers from 374800 to 378481 are given for 1939 up to the last gun made 8/9/1939. I don't believe there is any way they all of a sudden pumped out 3681 16-gauge Fox-Sterlingworths in eight or nine months!!! From my 20 or so years of recording serial numbers of observed Sterlingworths, guns in the 375,xxx, 376,xxx, 377,xxx and 378,xxx range certainly exist.

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On the 12-gauge Fox-Sterlingworths they estimate the highest serial number for 1937 as 145000, for 1938 as 150000 and for 1939 as 155000. Again from my years of observing and recording serial numbers, I haven't recorded a gun between 143802 and 160195, leading me to believe there were about 16000 serial numbers skipped. Perhaps the high 143xxx range was the end of regular production and the guns in the 160xxx and 161xxx range were cleanup of parts and barrels on hand?!? All of the guns I've recorded in that range are 26-inch barrels except one two-barrel set that also has a pair of 28-inch barrels.

I use to own 376,196 but I never got a letter on it. Adobe video encoder free.

Researcher, do you recall the flat-sided 16ga Sterlingworth I had? Very late gun, I'd have to check my records for the SN. There was some speculation that it might have started life as an SP but was then finished as a Sterlingworth. Engraving was Sterlingworth style, but the frame did not have the typical bosses seen on SW's. I remember we discussed it over on doublegunshop, and I think a photo of that gun appeared in Double Gun Journal.

Larry,

According to my tables of observed Sterlingworths the gun you had, that I first saw when George Korbel owned it, was 376996, the lowest serial number 'flatside' 16-gauge Fox-Sterlingworth I've recorded. I currantly have five recorded from 376996 to 377119. I have quite a few 12-gauge 'flatside' Fox-Sterlingworths recorded in the 132xxx range (with one regular frame right in the middle), one in the 138xxx range, and some right near the end in the 1613xx range.

Dave

The gun I have has a small oval on the barrels below the serial number with 'SP' inside. I have no idea what the significance of this is. It does have the normal Sterlingworth receiver.
It's hard to believe that a gun this old has had so little use. A shooting acquaintance came up to me several years ago with the gun and asked if I were willing to part with $700 for it. He had received the gun in lieu of $150 for work he had done for the widow of the previous owner. My guess is that it had been sitting in a closet for many decades. After a call to my resident Fox collector, I gave him the cash. It has been on an Adirondack vacation for the last couple of years and now its home to stay.

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The oval with the SP is Savage Proof.

I have a 16 gauge double barrel Fox-Sterlingworth with the serial number 372655. It was a gift and I don't know much about it. I know it is from the early thirties based on the posts here but I have no idea what it is worth or when it actually was made. It is a Utica gun and it is in very nice shape. If anyone can give me any idea what it may be worth and when it was made I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you!

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hi to all, purchased a 'the sterlingworth company' 12 guage fox stamped with philadelphia made fluid compressed steel barrels about 5 years ago. very tight with lever way right, 28' barrels, mirror bores, bluing and case colors look to be 95% or better. serial # 50782. from reading seems to be pin gun 1st 3000 made of parker style around 1910. shot less than 5 times by me. have been told by various dealers and collectors, either an original finish or early delgreco restoration. any more info or approximate value would be helpful. thanks, huntdoc

The DelGrego family specializes in Parker Bros. and Remington Model 32s. I doubt they would have refurbished a Fox. The Savage factory was doing refurbishments into the late 1960s and then that business was spun off to Mitzie Bielin, much like Remington spun off Parker and Model 32 work to Larry DelGrego. Mitzie didn't have a family of a mind set to continue the business like the DelGregos.

I have a very used 16 ga Sterlingworth serial # 355706. Still shoots fine and is a great lightweight gun. I have a couple of questions: How do I determine the choke of the barrels and what is the proper way to measure barrel length?<img src='<img src=' '>'>

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