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California Bull-dog: Calibre .44 five-shot model marked CALIFORNIA BULL-DOG on top strap. Barrel length on this model is 2.75-inches and weapon is nickel-plated. Courtesy Homer Ficken.

Texas Bull Dog: Calibre .44 five-shot model engraved with TEXAS BULL DOG at right side of frame. Barrel length on this model is 3.5- inches and weapon is nickel-plated. This version was sometimes marked as WESTERN STAR. Courtesy Homer Ficken.

An equally suitable title for the Texas market was STAR, a word which had been registered as a Belgian trade mark by Liege gun maker, Louis Muller, in 1889. (Whether or not he was ever involved with the manufacture of the Star Bull Dog model is still unresolved.) However, that particular version had certainly been produced by Neumann Brothers of rue Saint-Remy, Liege, where the firm had been in the business of gun making since 1863. Examples from that source carried the symbol of a hunting horn combined with the initial N, a trade mark registered by Neumann on 30 December 1893.