A GERMAN ROYAL PRESENTATION PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE with earlier sighted barrel octagonal changing to polygonal and rifled for a belted ball, decorated with flowerheads and bands of waved lines against a punched fishroe ground, the breech signed in full in silver and with engraved silver-encrusted stag and hind, engraved tang, border engraved case-hardened flat lock (hammer-retaining screw incomplete), figured walnut full stock, lightly carved cheek-piece, chequered grip (cracked) and fore-end set with silver pellets, German silver mounts including butt-plate engraved with a hound, scrolled trigger-guard engraved with a hind, and pierced engraved barrel-band, walnut patch-box cover with oval German silver plaque engraved 'Andenken von S. K. H. P. Friedrich von Preussen, 1822', shield-shaped German silver escutcheon engraved with initials F.S. for Prince Friedrich Salm-Dyck (1812-1848), set trigger, sling swivels, white horn fore-end cap, and original brass-tipped ramrod, the barrel by Morgenroth, Gernrode, dated 1822