A WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with dated octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and stamped with barrelsmith's initials MF at the breech, perhaps for Hans Martin Freytag of Strasburg, plain lock with flat integral wheel-cover, and engraved cock, walnut full stock with waved fluted fore-end, the butt (partly replaced) and patch-box cover inlaid with dark horn ovals framed by punched designs, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and dark horn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipe (ramrod missing), dated 1667

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A WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with dated octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and stamped with barrelsmith's initials MF at the breech, perhaps for Hans Martin Freytag of Strasburg, plain lock with flat integral wheel-cover, and engraved cock, walnut full stock with waved fluted fore-end, the butt (partly replaced) and patch-box cover inlaid with dark horn ovals framed by punched designs, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and dark horn fore-end cap and ramrod-pipe (ramrod missing), dated 1667
33½in. [E.165]

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