Parisian Charles Francois Galand, maybe? In the mid 1880s he was at 280 rue d'Hauteville and possibly an office or retail outlet on Whittall Street, Birmingham. He had several patents and US # 140,028, http://www.google.com/patents?id=2eJOAAA...y_r&cad=0_0 . With Belgian proofmarks he may very well have been a firearms merchant.

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Raimey
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