AN UNUSUAL GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE in the French taste, with blued swamped octagonal barrel rifled with alternating wide and narrow grooves, signed and dated in gold and with punched and gilt decoration at the muzzle and breech, the latter with a martial trophy, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock with chamfered border and engraved with flowers and foliage on the tail (cock missing), moulded figured walnut full stock carved with rococo flowers and foliage in relief, cheek-piece, wooden trigger-guard and patch-box cover at the toe of the butt, iron mounts engraved with scrollwork and foliage, partly on a gilt fish-roe ground, faceted iron ramrod-pipes, set trigger, horn fore-end cap, and silver escutcheon engraved with the crowned initials JSD (for Josef Salm-Dyck) within mantling (ramrod missing), by Pierre Greverath, Schloss Dyck, dated 1785