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AN AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and struck at the breech with maker's initials PR (back-sight missing), flat lock with enclosed wheel engraved with a wreath of flowers and foliage, the cock with three monsters, fruitwood full stock sparsley inlaid with finely engraved staghorn panels, one dated 1687, indented iron trigger-guard, set trigger, horn butt-plate, engraved staghorn fore-end cap, pierced staghorn ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod, the patch-box cover with staghorn finial engraved with a stag, dated 1687
30¾in. barrel [E.205, S.18]
30¾in. barrel [E.205, S.18]