A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel (back-sight missing) rifled with twelve grooves and struck on the grooved breech with an indistinct mark, plain lock with flat wheel-cover pierced with three hearts and a star, the cock-spring bracket pierced and engraved with a monster, the cock inlaid with brass, full stock with engraved staghorn inlays, the cheek-piece with an oval panel engraved with a profile head, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod (patch-box cover partly replaced), third quarter of the 17th Century