A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with earlier octagonal sighted barrel (fore-sight missing) rifled with eight grooves and struck twice on the grooved breech with a brass-lined mark, a pelican in piety, under the initials CH, plain rounded lock (comb of cock incomplete), moulded walnut full stock (fore-end replaced), the patch-box cover carved with foliage, iron mounts including trigger-guard (sling mount missing), pierced foliate side-plate, butt-plate with bulbous heel, and vacant bulbous escutcheon, moulded sliding safety-catch, and set trigger (adjusting screw and ramrod missing), unsigned, late 17th Century