A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE with signed swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves (back-sight missing, signature worn) and struck at the breech with a mark, a standing halberdier (Neue Støckel 5066), flat lock with integral wheel-cover engraved with flowers, foliage, a mask, a bird, and a monkey beating a drum, engraved cock, pierced and engraved brass bridle to the cock-spring, walnut full stock with waved fluted fore-end (damaged and incomplete), the cheek-piece inlaid with staghorn and mother-of-pearl, iron trigger-guard, and set trigger (ramrod missing), by Wilhelmus Consen, Düsseldorf, dated 1666

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A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING CARBINE with signed swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves (back-sight missing, signature worn) and struck at the breech with a mark, a standing halberdier (Neue Støckel 5066), flat lock with integral wheel-cover engraved with flowers, foliage, a mask, a bird, and a monkey beating a drum, engraved cock, pierced and engraved brass bridle to the cock-spring, walnut full stock with waved fluted fore-end (damaged and incomplete), the cheek-piece inlaid with staghorn and mother-of-pearl, iron trigger-guard, and set trigger (ramrod missing), by Wilhelmus Consen, Düsseldorf, dated 1666
22¾in. barrel [E.164, S.7]

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