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AN UNUSUAL BALTIC WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with two-stage barrel rifled with ten grooves, with punched and incised decoration on the rectangular breech, open back-sight, and stamped with a maker's mark twice, a standing halbedier (Støckel 550), flat lock with exposed wheel (apparently a working replacement), fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with horn and brass lines, brass pellets, scrolls and ball-flowers involving brass plaques (one missing) engraved with birds, animals, monsters, on the cheek-piece with a unicorn, opposite the lock with Leda and the swan, and at the ramrod entry with a naked female figure with the date 1618 and stockmaker's initials GML, brass trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved brass ramrod-pipe, fore-end cap and butt-plate, and iron-tipped ramrod, dated 1618
34¾in. barrel [E.119, S.11]
34¾in. barrel [E.119, S.11]