A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel (back-sight missing) rifled with eight grooves and with stamped maker's signature and date at the breech, plain lock with domed brass wheel-cover etched with flowers and foliage, chiselled cock and cock-spring (top jaw guide-bar defective), full stock with fluted fore-end and incised double line borders sparsely inlaid with dark horn plaques (one missing) engraved with scrolls, flowerheads, foliage, a townscape, and on the cheek-piece with a stag, horn-inlaid patch-box cover, horn butt-plate, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved horn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Christian Reich in Osterwick (Rosendahl, Westphalia), dated 1661