A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves, grooved breech and tang, the former struck with two marks (one similar to Neue Støckel 8007), fruitwood full stock (fore-end split) inlaid with mother-of-pearl plaques (some missing) variously engraved with fruit, foliage and scrollwork, and on the cheek-piece with a circular plaque engraved with a human mask framed by strapwork, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, inlaid patch-box cover, and engraved horn fore-end cap (fore-end split, lock and ramrod missing), mid-17th Century; and the stock of a wheel-lock sporting rifle, with fluted fore-end (minor splits), the butt and patch-box cover with a band of punched decoration and inlaid with an engraved horn panel, and foliate engraved horn fore-end cap and pierced ramrod-pipes, late 17th Century