A SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK TSCHINKE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves and with punched and pricked decoration over almost its entire length, lock of characteristic form also with punched decoration on the plate, wheel-bracket, and applied panels, and with engraved cock and pan-cover, full stock (fore-end chipped) profusely inlaid in the Teschen manner with horn scrolls and pellets within horn lines, inhabited by animals, monsters, profile heads, a sportsman and a boar, a stag beset by a hound, and on the cheek-piece by the figure of St. George and the Dragon, enriched with engraved mother-of-pearl insets, patch-box cover en suite (base-plate replaced, release-catch missing), associated iron trigger-guard, engraved horn butt-plate (repaired, button missing), and iron ramrod with turned tip (fore-end tip and forward horn ramrod-pipe replaced, staghorn inlay on butt incomplete), Teschen, mid-17th Century