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








