A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE with octagonal barrel (shortened) rifled with eight grooves, flat lock with exposed wheel, engraved on the plate with a stag-hunt in a landscape, the wheel-retaining bracket pierced and engraved with a bird, later full stock inlaid with staghorn plaques engraved with animals, flowers and foliage, engraved horn ramrod-pipe, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and iron ramrod, late 17th Century