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Lot 222*

A Fine And Very Rare 25-Bore Sartoris Patent Breech-Loading Percussion Rifled Carbine
By A.F. Biven, Regent St., Waterloo Place, No. 129, Circa 1822-25

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine And Very Rare 25-Bore Sartoris Patent Breech-Loading Percussion Rifled Carbine
By A.F. Biven, Regent St., Waterloo Place, No. 129, Circa 1822-25

With browned twist barrel (minor patches of light pitting) rifled with ten grooves and constructed to slide forward for loading, breech with gold-lined 'Patent London' stamp and with hinged spring-loaded lever engraved with foliage, hinged tip-up polygonal breech with interrupted thread, faceted side-lever and stamped 'A.F.B' above the serial number beneath, the rear section engraved with a stag between gold lines, foliate engraved tang with back-sight and knurled adjusting screw, border engraved flat lock signed in full and decorated with a starburst and scrolling foliage, foliate engraved hammer with knurled nose, highly figured full stock with cheek-piece, chequered grip and fore-end, blued steel mounts comprising muzzle-band carrying the fore-sight and also forming the fore-end cap engraved with a starburst, border engraved butt-plate and trigger-guard, the former decorated with martial trophies on the heel tang and ovoidal butt-trap cover, the latter with D-shaped bow decorated with a martial trophy against a boar's head, the scrolled tang with foliage, trigger-plate with urn-shaped finial, fore-end set with an engraved foliate silver plate, vacant silver escutcheon, and retaining most of its original finish, London proof marks
48.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Anthony Farindon Biven is recorded as 'Manufacturer of breechloading rifle patented by Urbanus Sartoris' and had his business at 16 Regent Street between 1822 and 1825. The present carbine incorporates Sartoris' British Patents of 11 March 1817 (No. 4107), and 23 January 1819 (No. 4336)

Cf. a very similar target rifle by the same maker (no. 145) formerly in the Dr. Hans Georg Plaut Collection and sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 1 April 2004, lot 131. A flintlock carbine by the same maker (no. 5) was sold in these Rooms 27 November 2013, lot 327; and for a flintlock gun signed A. Siebe, on the same principle and formerly in the W. Keith Neal Collection, see Christie's London, 25 October 2001, lot 73

See Major Noel Corry, 'Breechloading Flintlock Guns', The Gun Report, May 1962, pp. 26-32, pl. 10

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