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I added pictures of my Two bbl set Kilby to my earlier post for you to look at. Drew, are those laminated or something else?

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Laminated steel Leighton, but they do look a bit like Greener's "Silver Steel"



Another shot of your barrels


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Yes it has proof marks. The Birmingham provisional proof mark(crown over BP)1855-1904, the Birmingham View3 Mark(crossed swords with crown in top angle and V in bottom angle1813-1904, the Brimingham definitvve proof mark(crossed swords wiith BPC in the left bootom1813-1904 and 12 over C in the diamond chamber size mark 1887-1954 for 2 1/2 inch chamber. The gun has no nitro proof marks and vever proved for nitro powders, and a 13/1 bore for internal barrel dimension .719-.729 normal 12 guage.

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GUNMAKERS OF ILLINOIS by Johnson Vol 1 Page 156:
DONN, WILLIAM Canton,Fulton Co before 1870-1900 Pioria Pioria Co
before & After 1886-1888
A brother of noted Canton gunmaker James Donn, William is listed
as a gunsmith in the 1870 census. He was 24 years old, born in Illinois and was at that time employd by his brother James. In
1873 James and William becames partners, a business relationship
that..ended in 1900. During that time William was primarily
involved with merchandising. At the time of his brother's death
in 1911 William was a resident of Chicao.
Have a E Thomas Jr With T Kilby Barrells-No Proofs on action flats.
Bill McPhail
-Thomas used diferent makers for his Barrells


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John,

Could we see a closeup of the buttstock carving?


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Michael, not knowing how to post a photo I will take a photo and email to you.

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Here's a George T. Abbey, Chicago with Kilby Laminated Steel barrels on the Vintage Doubles site
http://www.vintagedoubles.com/inventory.php?sort=1&process=fullview&gunID=187

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John,

Thanks for the pictures, I’m looking for a pre-WWI woodcarver from the Chicago area and now I see it’s not Donn. Nice work and a great custom gun.





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I think this thread will get a lot more interesting but I need to backup and start over a bit. John, if would not mind would you edit the original title to say Kilby-Donn-Daly. I've made a couple of calls and trying to locate some people who might help on this but the title might not attract the folks we need.


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To make this easier to understand I would like to talk about three guns.

1. The one this original post is about a Kilby-Donn.
2. A Daly-Donn
3. A Kilby-?

One of the past owners of gun No. 2 the Daly-Donn should be along to tell us about it.


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