A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, inlaid with silver around the fore-sight and with silver interlaced designs at the breech enclosing a dog in silver and a squirrel in brass, engraved tang, plain rounded lock with moulded border, moulded lightly carved figured walnut full stock, brass mounts chased in low relief with strapwork and foliage (butt-plate damaged), the trigger-guard (repaired) with a stag and a hind, each beset by a hound, the side-plate pierced and chased with a stag-hunt, carved patch-box cover, turned brass ramrod-pipes (one incomplete), horn fore-end cap, iron sling mounts, and wooden ramrod, second quarter of the 18th Century