A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, the barrel with long sighting flat and slightly swamped muzzle, inlaid in brass at the breech with a sun in splendour, four stars and a foliate engraved band, and engraved with a moon and further stars, bevelled brass lock engraved with a grotesque and a military trophy, and struck with a mark, a bird in a shield, moulded walnut full stock, the butt struck with a mark behind the trigger-guard tang, brass mounts including side-plate centred on a grotesque mask and pierced and engraved with foliage, and faceted ramrod-pipes (ramrod missing), early 18th Century