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The patch-box contains an old German Gewehrkammer label numbered 93
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A 25-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE (MÜLLER-BÜCHSE)
CIRCA 1680
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and with brass fore-sight, the breech engraved with scrollwork, cut with a band of beadwork, and with stepped ramp, plain tang, flat lock retained by two side-nails and engraved with scrolling foliage, flat integral wheel-cover engraved with a wreath and pierced with a triangular pattern of three holes, the cock engraved with a bird and pierced with foliage, the sliding pan-cover with baluster release button, walnut full stock inlaid with interlaced scrollwork in iron wire enriched with iron nails and inlaid on the cheek-piece with pierced iron scrollwork involving a running stag, iron oval escutcheon engraved with a bird, iron mounts, indented trigger-guard, flat butt-plate retained by nails and with long waved tang, patch-box cover with central oval iron panel engraved with a flower, iron side-nail washers each in the form of an expanded flower, set trigger, turned iron ramrod-pipes, iron fore-end cap, and iron-tipped ramrod (incomplete)
31 13/16in. barrel
CIRCA 1680
With swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves and with brass fore-sight, the breech engraved with scrollwork, cut with a band of beadwork, and with stepped ramp, plain tang, flat lock retained by two side-nails and engraved with scrolling foliage, flat integral wheel-cover engraved with a wreath and pierced with a triangular pattern of three holes, the cock engraved with a bird and pierced with foliage, the sliding pan-cover with baluster release button, walnut full stock inlaid with interlaced scrollwork in iron wire enriched with iron nails and inlaid on the cheek-piece with pierced iron scrollwork involving a running stag, iron oval escutcheon engraved with a bird, iron mounts, indented trigger-guard, flat butt-plate retained by nails and with long waved tang, patch-box cover with central oval iron panel engraved with a flower, iron side-nail washers each in the form of an expanded flower, set trigger, turned iron ramrod-pipes, iron fore-end cap, and iron-tipped ramrod (incomplete)
31 13/16in. barrel