AN UNUSUAL GERMAN LEFT-HAND LOCK WHEEL-LOCK GUN with earlier three-stage sighted barrel of exceptional length and in the Turkish taste, the forward section polygonal and decorated with an inlaid brass band and an applied silver ring behind the bulbous muzzle, octagonal breech, plain tang, large flat lock with bright mechanism partly blued, cresentic wheel-retaining bracket, pan-cover release button in the form of a quatrefoil, and ring-neck cock engraved with a fish and foliage, fruitwood full stock cut with lines and with fluted fore-end (minor splits), horn butt-plate, engraved side-nail washers and fore-end cap, wooden patch-box cover, iron indented trigger-guard, and set trigger (ramrod missing), third quarter of the 17th Century