AN UNUSUAL MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING GUN with stamped octagonal sighted barrel struck with a mark, a dagger (?) at the breech, plain lock with traces of engraved inscription on the bridle to the cock and pan, the tail engraved with a sun in splendour, full stock without butt-plate carved with scrollwork in relief around the barrel tang and on the fore-end, plain iron mounts without ramrod tail-pipe, white staghorn scroll side-plate, and original wooden ramrod, circa 1670-80, probably German