Kirkwood guns are neat. A friend and I were just looking at one similar yesterday. It was a 12 bore with the Kirkwood patent ejector from the early 1880s. David Kirkwood was from England and eventually came the the U.S. Early on, he had a partnership with Mortimer, who was from the famous gunmaking family in Britain. I think they did not produce any hammerless guns, but I have seen other types. Kirkwood was at Elm St. in Boston and later the business changed to include a sporting goods line. Later the Kirkwood business imported British guns and probably finished them up here, putting various forms of Kirkwood names on them.
