With tapering slender two-stage octagonal to round sighted barrel, fitted with rear-sights towards the breech, engraved breech block depicting a stag, with single platinum line and with platinum vent, profusely engraved tang, border engraved back-action lock, signed ‘I. LANG’ and fitted with a sliding safety, engraved with a stag in woodland, half-stocked in walnut, cut with a band of chequering at the wrist, with horn fore-end, engraved steel mounts retaining some original colour, including; trigger guard decorated with a tiger on the bow and what appears to be a wolf on the finial, vacant border engraved circular escutcheon and turned ramrod pipes, with original wooden ramrod. 

LANG

Joseph Gunmaker (opened as Gun & Pistol Repository from Wilson’s Warehouse, Vigo Lane) 7 Haymarket, 1925-52 (Shooting Gallery adjoining from 1827) 22 Cockspur St., Charing Cross, 1853-74. Became Joseph Lang & Sons, eventually amalgamating with Stephen Grant, Exhibited 4 and 6 barrel revolvers, Great Exhibition, 1851. Popularised the pin-fire breechloader. Died 1869. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

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