A FINE PAIR OF GERMAN HEAVY WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLES (MÜLLERBÜCHSEN) with swamped octagonal sighted barrels rifled with fourteen broad and narrow grooves (one fore-sight missing) engraved with flowers and foliage at the breech and with a female mask on the breech tang, rounded locks each with domed integral wheel-covers engraved with a laurel wreath, each tail engraved with the figure of Hercules and a monster within scrolling foliage, the pierced cocks engraved on the top jaw with a profile head (pan-cover release buttons missing), fruitwood full stocks inlaid with iron nails and wire scrolls enclosing iron panels finely engraved with a bear-hunt on the right side of the butt, a stag-hunt on the cheek-piece, and a bearded male face on the escutcheons, finely pierced and engraved side-plates (slight damage) involving monster-heads and demi-figures, fluted iron trigger-guards with pierced finials, set triggers, engraved iron butt-plates each with long serpentine tang and iron button, turned iron ramrod-pipes, and original iron-capped ramrods, the patch-boxes on the underside of the butts, late 17th Century 33¾in. barrels [E.226,227, S.16,17] (2)