A PAIR OF WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLES, similar, the barrels rifled with seven grooves, the locks engraved with a circle of scrolling foliage on a hatched ground enclosing the maker's signature, with a marine monster on the cock, and a serpent on the bridle to the cock-spring, lightly carved figured walnut full stocks (one fore-stock chipped and cracked), horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end caps, and one wooden ramrod (the other missing, one trigger-guard finial defective), by Johann Wille (sic), circa 1700

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A PAIR OF WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLES, similar, the barrels rifled with seven grooves, the locks engraved with a circle of scrolling foliage on a hatched ground enclosing the maker's signature, with a marine monster on the cock, and a serpent on the bridle to the cock-spring, lightly carved figured walnut full stocks (one fore-stock chipped and cracked), horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end caps, and one wooden ramrod (the other missing, one trigger-guard finial defective), by Johann Wille (sic), circa 1700
30½in. [E.230,231, S.24,27] (2)

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