A RARE D.B. FLINTLOCK WENDER FOWLING-PIECE, the barrels with narrow full-length central rib and a shorter rib on each side at the breech, brass back-sight screwed into the engraved tang, flat bevelled back-action lock engraved with flowers and foliage, the cock engraved with a crowned serpent and retained internally, moulded full stock (the butt a working replacement, the fore-stock chipped), iron trigger-guard and butt-plate, brass ramrod-pipes without tail-pipe, brass fore-end caps, and iron barrel-release in the form of a monster (ramrod missing), circa 1650, almost certainly Dutch