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Registered: March 2009
Location: Midwest
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RARE 1918 WWI AH Fox & Co. 25mm Flare gun
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Date Posted
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1
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5797
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Wed October 20, 2010
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Asking Price
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Shipping Amount
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Condition
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$450.00
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$8.00
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Fair
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Description:
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RARE! 1917 TO 1918 AH FOX & COMPANY 25MM FLARE GUN
This is a momento that my grandfather brought back from France and WWI. My grandfather fell in love in France with a beautiful young lady that he wanted to bring back to the USA and Marry. He learned after he was seriously wounded that his family had already arranged for him to marry a girl from another Swedish family living just down the road from them. He returned to the USA and married my grandmother and they were married until his death in 1981. I inherited this flare gun from him.
America's Munitions 1917-1918, report of Benedict Crowell, the Assistant Secretary of War, Director of Munitions, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919. On page 220 where he discussed the Very Flare Pistol -- "In August 1918, we let contracts for 135,000 of the 25-mm pistols and for approximately 30,000 of the 35-mm pistols. The A.H. Fox Gun Co. completed 4,193 of the smaller pistols and Scott & Fetzer Machine Co. turned out 7,750 of them. Other concerns which had taken contracts but had not come into production when the armistice was signed were the National Tool & Manufacturing Co., Doehler Die Castings Co., The Hammond Typewrited Co., and Parker Bros."
one in the original 25mm seems is rarer, as most have a line stamped through the 25mm and are marked "1" Conv. The post WW-I Ordnance report, says the A.H. Fox Gun Co. made about 5400 of them. Parker Bros was tooling up to make them, but the war ended.
My A.H. Fox Flare pistol, also called a VERY pistol was produced by Fox as a result of it's being awarded a U.S. Military contract in August of 1918. It is referenced in Mike Mc Intosh's book on page 176. Most are brass framed & @ 10 bore. Fox turned out @ 500 per day until the November Armistice was signed. Undoubtedly, according to Ansley, it was: "THE FINEST FLARE PISTOL IN THE WORLD".
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Item Location City/State (REQUIRED):
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Bloomington Indiana
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Keywords:
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guns, weapons, rare, flare, AH, FOX AH FOX, rifle, pistol, revolver, flare gun
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