A GERMAN FLINTLOCK STRAIGHT-GROOVED SPORTING GUN with two-stage sighted barrel octagonal at the breech and retained by a brass band finely pierced on the under side with an elaborate monogram with coronet above, plain bevelled lock, walnut half-stock (cracked) carved with scrollwork on the butt, cheek-piece, patch-box in the toe of the butt, brass mounts including pierced and chiselled side-plate in the French taste, horn fore-end cap, and iron sling mounts (ramrod and one side nail missing, surface rust), second quarter of the 18th Century