A BOHEMIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with heavy barrel rifled with eight grooves, struck with Suhl mark, and with three panels of engraved decoration, back-sight with pierced and engraved tang, flat lock engraved with a bear hunting scene in a landscape, and dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, engraved flush-fitting cock, fruitwood full stock (wormed) stained black and finely carved in relief with scrolls, fruit, berries, masks and acanthus foliage, opposite the lock with a hind, and on the underside in front of the lock with a mask, its mouth acting as a smoke escape, the flat surfaces of the butt dotted in imitation of staghorn, carved integral ramrod-pipes, the associated patch-box cover with a boar beset by hounds, the cheek-piece inlaid with a pierced silver medallion cast in the form of a panoply of arms, set trigger, and iron trigger-guard (repaired) and butt-plate (ramrod missing, one pierced silver side-nail washer replaced), circa 1670, probably Eger