La Fury or LA Fury Associated with semi-automatic pistols made in Germany by →Reck of Lauf bei Nürnberg and distributed in the U.S.A. lae Allotted to Heinrich →Zeiss (Union Zeiss KG), for use on sights and optical equipment made in a factory in Gostingen/Wartheland, Germany, in 1943–5. Lady’s Model A tiny 6.35mm-calibre revolver made in Liége by Établissements A. in 1959–63, this had gold plating on the frame and barrel, and pearlite grips. Lady Model Similar to the ‘Fourth Model’ →Lord derringer, made by →Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Mfg Co.
Lady Colt A brand name applied unofficially in the early 1870, by →Kittredge & Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., to the. Ladmore Edwin Ladmore, a gunmaker trading in Widemarsh Street, Hereford, England (1841–70), is known to have marked sporting guns and self-cocking →pepperboxes dating from the middle of the nineteenth century. Based in Birmingham, this English gunmaker and sword cutler was listed in London in 1850–3, maintaining an office at 21 Great St Helen’s. A trading style of Lacy & Witton, perhaps? Lacy & Reynolds. The marks of this English gunmaker have been reported on self cocking →pepperboxes dating from the middle of the nineteenth century. A maker of revolvers active in the 1870s. Lachat Jules Lachat rue de Vernay 50, Saint Étienne, France.
Some of the shotgun cartridges apparently bore the names →Welcome or ‘Welcome Smokeless’. Lacey-who also traded as an ironmonger-handled sporting guns and ammunition prior to the First World War. Lacey Arthur Lacey Bridge Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwick- shire, England. armed forces by →Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Mfg Co. Labonte, using an ‘HBL’ mark, accepted firearms and accessories made for the U.S. Signify French or Belgian origin-La Balle, ‘The Bullet’, perhaps indicating that the guns were either capable of firing conventional cartridges when required, or that they were rifled to fire slugs instead of being smoothbored for darts. It may PAGE 2 : THE DICTIONARY OF GUNS AND GUNMAKERS →Jeffrey of London, England, on large →Gem type butt cylinder airguns sold in the early 1890s. Laballe or La Balle Said to have been used by W. A small Spanish-made revolver, customarily a six-shot chambered for the 7.65mm Auto cartridge, with a barrel/cylinder assembly that could be slid forward to load. La Rosa, a Spanish gunmaker/patentee: see ‘La →Rosa’. La Reine, a small airgun: see ‘Carabine la Reine’. 410 shotgun, with a revolver-type grip and a skeleton stock, made in the 1920s by (or perhaps for) Leopold →Ancion-Marx of Liége. A few thousand guns seem to have been made immediately prior to the First World War, but were then superseded by simpler →Browning copies. La Lira This Spanish semi-automatic pistol, the work of →Garate, Anitua y Cia of Eibar, was essentially a 1901-pattern →Mannlicher in all but two respects: the chambering, for 7.65mm Auto cartridges, and the substitution of a detachable box magazine for the original integral charger-loaded design. La Industrial A small Browning type pocket pistol usually attributed to →Orbea Hermanos of Eibar, Guipuzcoa, Spain, though on uncertain grounds 6.35mm, six rounds. La France Specialties of San Diego, California, U.S.A., has specialised in the manufacture of silencers suited to handguns such as the →Government Model Colt-Browning. La Coruña, Spanish arms factory: see ‘Mauser’. Found on Portuguese weapons: the mark of King Luis I (1861–89). A mark found on butt cylinder airguns made by Friedrich →Langenhan of Zella St Blasii, Thüringen, Germany, from c. L Stamped into the woodwork of ‘Long’ British military rifle butts, which were two inches longer than standard. Found on Belgian weapons: the mark of Kings Leopold II (1865–1909) and Leopold III (1934–50). Found on Bavarian weapons: the mark of Kings Ludwig II (1864–86) and Ludwig III (1913–18). See also “British military inspectors’ marks”. A mark applied by an inspector working in the →Lithgow small arms factory in New South Wales, Australia. THE DIRECTORY: L–LZA Updated to 3rd February 2015 L above ‘’. THE DICTIONARY OF GUNS AND GUNMAKERS : PAGE 1
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