AN ALSATIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted smoothbore barrel struck twice at the breech with barrelsmith's mark PS, a standing halberdier above (Neue Støckel 8346), signed rounded lock engraved with foliage, and struck with the Strasburg mark (Neue Støckel 1633) in front of the pan, figured walnut full stock (minor cracks) carved in relief behind the barrel tang and on the cheek-piece with scrollwork, berries and foliage on a punched ground, the cheek-piece inlaid with a shaped staghorn plaque engraved with a stag beset by hounds, staghorn patch-box cover engraved with scrollwork and a sportsman aiming his flintlock rifle at a boar from behind trees, iron mounts including trigger-guard with turned finial, pierced scolled side-plate, butt-plate with long tang engraved with a rosette, set trigger, turned iron ramrod-pipes, engraved horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod, by Thomas Bader à Strasbourg, late 17th Century