A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN with two-stage barrel cut with ten straight grooves and struck twice at the breech with a mark, a standing halberdier (Neue Støckel 5069), engraved tang, moulded lightly carved figured walnut half-stock (lock and side-nails missing), finely engraved brass mounts, the butt-plate with the figure of St. Eustace, the trigger-guard with a classical warrior bearing a shield with the arms of Salm, the side-nail washers with marine monsters, pierced and engraved barrel-band with cypher of Altgraf August Ernst Bernardin (1706-1767), engraved faceted brass ramrod-pipes, and brass-tipped ramrod, by Jacobus Köpp of Neuss, circa 1720