A FINE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, the dated barrel rifled with eight grooves, grooved behind the back-sight, and struck with maker's mark AF, a bird beneath (similar to Neue Støckel 1848), and twice with the Gotha mark (Neue Støckel 1447), the lock with brass wheel-cover punched with scrolling flowers and foliage on a dotted ground, chiselled cock, stained figured fruitwood full stock inlaid with horn lines and horn plaques engraved with marine monsters, berries, foliage, and on the cheek-piece with a horse, behind the barrel tang a small plaque engraved with stockmaker's initials IG, set trigger, iron trigger-guard, horn butt-plate (damaged), and engraved horn fore-end cap, the patch-box cover engraved with a heron and foliage, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, dated 1657