A FINE GERMAN COMBINED MATCHLOCK AND WHEEL-LOCK GUN with three-stage sighted barrel with three raised loops on the breech section, the dated lock with chiselled details, knopped wheel-retaining bracket with concave wheel-cover, and engraved sliding pan-cover (safety-catch defective), dated full stock veneered with white staghorn finely engraved with strapwork, cabling, birds, animals, flowers, fruit and foliage, with Biblical scenes on the butt, and a stag-hunt in a landscape opposite the lock, the fore-stock with standing figures representing the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, each within a niche and flanked by a running chevron pattern of wood and staghorn within a cabled horn border, engraved horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, iron trigger-guard, and original iron-tipped ramrod, dated 1570