A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves (back-sight missing), plain lock with annular wheel-retaining bracket, engraved on the cock and bridle to the cock-spring (cock repaired), full stock with fluted fore-end, iron trigger-guard, staghorn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, set trigger, and iron-tipped ramrod (patch-box cover associated), third quarter of the 17th Century