A FLEMISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with earlier swamped octagonal sighted barrel (back-sight missing) rifled with fourteen alternating wide and narrow grooves and stamped at the breech with initials G.A. and the date 1677, flat bevelled lock engraved with flowers and foliage (mainspring missing), moulded lightly carved figured walnut full stock (fore-end chipped), bronze mounts cast and chased in relief with masks and foliage, solid side-plate with a stag-hunt in a landscape, trigger-guard with a seated putto, butt-plate with a boar-hunt and a devil's mask, pierced escutcheon with coronet above, bearing the crest of Orlandini, associated patch-box cover (retaining catch missing), set trigger, faceted ramrod-pipes, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod missing), circa 1720-30