A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with a similar mark, plain lock with cresentic wheel-retaining bracket and lightly engraved cock, full stock with fluted fore-end, the butt with punched and incised decoration, the cheek-piece inlaid with a mother-of -pearl roundel, iron mounts and butt-plate, set trigger, pierced iron ramrod-pipes (loose) and iron-tipped ramrod, third quarter of the 17th Century