A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal barrel (back-sight missing) rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with barrelsmith's initials H.M., a standing female figure between, in an oval punch (perhaps for Hans Müller of Kassel), plain rounded lock (top jaw and screw associated), lightly carved figured walnut full stock, the butt with cheek-piece and carved patch-box cover, iron mounts, horn side-nail washers, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod and rear sling mount missing), early 18th Century