A COMPOSITE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with eight grooves, signed 'Christian Reich in Osterweick', and dated 1668, flat lock with enclosed wheel, the plate engraved with a stag-hunting scene in a landscape, moulded full stock inlaid with engraved staghorn panels, pellets and scrolls, iron mounts and butt-plate, patch-box cover overlaid with engraved staghorn, turned iron ramrod-pipes, set trigger, and horn-tipped ramrod