A RARE FLEMISH MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped three-stage sighted barrel in the Turkish manner rifled with sixteen grooves and inlaid with silver at the muzzle and breech, lock of shaped outline with chiselled details, moulded lightly carved figured walnut half-stock (butt cracked), brass mounts cast and chased with stags, masks and foliage in relief, pierced vacant escutcheon with coronet above, brass fore-end cap, and faceted brass ramrod-pipes (ramrod missing), early 18th Century