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C1905 ‘Dolla Air ‘Variant IV’ Air Pistol. AI 790. - AI 790 The Langenhan enterprise was founded in 1842 by Valentin Friedrich Langenhan (1819-1886) with his father Johann Gottlieb Langenhan (1791-1883). In 1861 they took over an old hammer mill in Zella-St. Blasii, Thuringia, where they manufactured tools, lock work, gun barrels, and other parts for weapons. Early on, the company began to manufacture revolvers and, in 1873, developed and produced the Sachsenrevolver for use by the Saxony cavalry. An 1864 advertisement lists the company name and location as “Freidrich Langenhan, Zella by Gotha,” and states it is a “factory in guns, cast steel barrels, and especially all types of revolvers.” An 1873 advertisement in the Handbook of Industry gives the name of the company as Gewehr-Fabrik von Friedrich Langenhan (gun factory of Friedrich Langenhan) of Zella in Thuringia, “offering luxury rifles, revolvers, pistols according to all the latest systems, as well as all articles in the [firearms] field, quality guaranteed. Friedrich’s son, Ernst Hermann Langenhan (1859-1929), took over the company in 1885, only a few years after the death of his grandfather, and a year before the death of his father, and ran it until his own death in 1929. It has an oval trigger guard aperture and they all have a locating notch along the lower rear seam of the grip. However, the second, or forward, pivot pin that is visible on the second variant is now hidden inside the grip. It retains a kidney shaped grip. However it loses the convex front edge. The pistol has been tested and fires as it should. The price includes UK delivery. AI 790. £195.00
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