A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and struck at the breech with a mark, HB above a barrel, plain lock engraved with two confronted monsters on the wheel-bracket, the dog engraved with a mermaid and two marine monsters, and the bridle to the cock-spring with further monsters, fruitwood full stock with fluted fore-end, the butt sparsley engraved with foliage and carved in relief with a hound and a stag, opposite the lock with a further stag, and in front of the trigger-guard with a crowned double-headed eagle, the patch-box cover with a boar and a hound, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, iron ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod, circa 1670