A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed and dated swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and with brass-lined maker's mark at the breech (Neue Støckel 578), signed lock finely engraved with foliage on the plate and integral wheel-cover, and with a marine monster and a rabbit on the cock, and a further marine monster on the bridle to the cock-spring, the cock with engraved pivoting flash-guard, walnut full stock with fluted fore-end (chipped and cracked), the butt numbered 1 and sparsely inlaid with dark horn panels, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, dark horn butt-plate, ramrod-pipes, and fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod, by Guidobald Klett in München, dated 1697