A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, the sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and with stamped signature at the breech, the bevelled brass lock signed along the bottom edge below the steel-spring, the lightly carved full stock (chipped and cracked) with cheek-piece butt-trap, and faceted brass mounts, horn fore-end cap, iron sling swivels, set trigger (incomplete), and associated brass-tipped ramrod (one ramrod-pipe detached), by I.G. Lauterer à Harburg, mid-18th Century