AN AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed octagonal sighted barrel (back-sight missing) rifled with seven grooves and stamped with maker's mark at the breech (Neue Støckel 8595), flat lock with enclosed wheel, finely engraved with foliage and a wreath enclosing the maker's initials BZ, the cock and the bridle to the cock-spring each finely engraved with a monster, figured fruitwood full stock inlaid with horn lines and foliate engraved horn plaques, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved horn ramrod-pipes, butt-plate and fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod, by Johann Balthasar Zellner, Zell am Wallersee, Salzburg, early 18th Century