A PAIR OF GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUNS with octagonal sighted barrels each retained by a brass band pierced with a rosette design, brass saddle back-sights on a pierced band engraved with foliage, bevelled locks (one top jaw missing and screw incomplete) struck on the inside with a mark IC in a rectangle, chiselled steel-spring bracket made in one with the pan, figured walnut half-stocks sparsely carved and engraved with foliage, fluted butts, brass mounts including butt-plates and chamfered spurred trigger-guards, and combined fore-end caps and barrel-band (one missing), faceted ramrod-pipes (ramrods missing), and iron sling swivels (one missing), unsigned, second quarter of the 18th Century