拍品 189
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A RARE SARTORIS PATENT FLINTLOCK BREECH-LOADING MILITARY CARBINE with three-stage rebrowned twist sighted barrel fitted with folding handle, case-hardened tip-up chamber with interrupted screw joint and lifting ring above, the underside stamped 'A.F.B.' (for A.F. Biven), flat bevelled bolted lock with roller and semi-rainproof pan, walnut half-stock, cheek-piece, brass mounts, iron saddle-bar, and brass carrying handle integral with the trigger-guard, London proof marks, circa 1825

细节
A RARE SARTORIS PATENT FLINTLOCK BREECH-LOADING MILITARY CARBINE with three-stage rebrowned twist sighted barrel fitted with folding handle, case-hardened tip-up chamber with interrupted screw joint and lifting ring above, the underside stamped 'A.F.B.' (for A.F. Biven), flat bevelled bolted lock with roller and semi-rainproof pan, walnut half-stock, cheek-piece, brass mounts, iron saddle-bar, and brass carrying handle integral with the trigger-guard, London proof marks, circa 1825
21¾in. barrel
展览
The National Army Museum, Chelsea, 1972-1994

拍品专文

Urbanus Sartoris patented his tip-up chamber in London and Paris in 1817, with an improved version in 1819. A few carbines were made but he received no encouragement from the Ordnance and his London business went into liquidation in 1826

Anthony Farindon Biven is recorded at 16 Regent Street 1822-5