A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel of small bore rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with a mark, MP conjoined, plain lock with integral wheel-cover pierced with a triangular pattern of circles and with chiselled cock-spring, the cock engraved with two monsters, fruitwood full stock with punched borders and engraved staghorn inlays, the cheek-piece with a circular panel engraved with a stag, waved fluted fore-end, horn-inlaid patch-box cover, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, horn butt-plate, and iron-tipped ramrod, third quarter of the 17th Century