A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed barrel rifled with seven grooves, flat lock with annular wheel-bracket, figured walnut full stock carved in relief with scenes of the chase within landscapes enriched by flat panels inlaid with staghorn plaques engraved with animals within staghorn ovals, the cheek-piece with a lion in a landscape, on the underside of the stock the carved arms of Raitz von Frentz sumounted by two helms, the patch-box cover carved with fruit and foliage in relief (base-plate missing), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, pierced and engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe, engraved fore-end cap, plain staghorn butt-plate, and associated horn-tipped ramrod, by Christoph Öting, Cologne (?), third quarter of the 17th Century