A COMPOSITE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE with octagonal sighted barrel (pitted) rifled with eight grooves, flat lock with enclosed wheel engraved with a bird, a serpent and foliage, flush-fitting pan-cover release button, fruitwood full stock (repaired below the lock) inlaid with engraved staghorn panels (some unengraved replacements), the cheek-piece with a circular panel engraved with a stag, fluted fore-end (extended), horn-covered patch-box cover engraved with a stag and fruit, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger (incomplete), engraved horn ramrod-pipe (rear ramrod-pipe replaced), and later wooden ramrod, third quarter of the 17th Century