Fine Modern & Antique Arms - July 2022 : Sale A0722 Lot 595
T. KENNEDY, KILMARNOCK A COMPOSED CASED PAIR OF 13-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED BELTED-BALL GUNS, serial nos. 266 & 268,

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T. KENNEDY, KILMARNOCK
A COMPOSED CASED PAIR OF 13-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED BELTED-BALL GUNS, serial no's. 266 & 268,
circa 1855, with re-browned stub-twist 30in. barrels, broad flat sighting rib signed 'T. KENNEDY KILMARNOCK' and 'RIFLE-MAKER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT', dove-tailed blade fore-sight, rear-sight with three flush folding leaves, a stags head and bands engraved at breech, fully scroll engraved top-tang surrounding a recumbent leopard on one gun and a stag on the other, platinum plugs, flat border and scroll engraved bar action locks signed 'T. KENNEDY', the forward portion of the locks on one gun engraved with a running stag on the left and a leopard on the right, the other with border and scroll, scroll engraved dolphin headed hammers, walnut chequered half-stocks, long-spurred iron heel-plates, border and scroll engraved trigger-guards with pistol-grip spurs, pineapple finials, scroll engraved ramrod throats an original brass mounted ebony ramrods, one gun with repaired damage to fore-end, the other with inlet repair forwards of right lock together with a period walnut storage case with internal lift-out tray, compartmented and relined in green baize and containing a number of period accessories including a ball mould, two powder flasks, two wad punches, caps and sundry cleaning accessories



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Estimate £2,000-3,000