A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK LIGHT SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and stamped at the breech with maker's initials HW and the date, together with a brass-lined mark (Neue Støckel 1129), plain lock with integral wheel-cover, highly figured maple full stock with fluted fore-end (cracked and chipped), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, dark horn butt-plate, side-nail washers and rear ramrod-pipe (forward ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap missing), and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, probably by Hans Waas of Bamberg, dated 1664

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A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK LIGHT SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and stamped at the breech with maker's initials HW and the date, together with a brass-lined mark (Neue Støckel 1129), plain lock with integral wheel-cover, highly figured maple full stock with fluted fore-end (cracked and chipped), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, dark horn butt-plate, side-nail washers and rear ramrod-pipe (forward ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap missing), and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, probably by Hans Waas of Bamberg, dated 1664
26 3/8in. barrel [E.161, S.2]

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