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ANOTHER, with dated swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck with initials CR at the breech, plain lock with applied flat wheel-cover punched with a crowned double-headed eagle on a punched ground, pan-cover release button in the form of a pierced quatrefoil, and chiselled cock, fruitwood full stock (fore-end cracked) inlaid with shaped horn panels engraved with strapwork, fruit, flowerheads, foliage, and animals, the butt enriched with horn lines, the dated cheek-piece inlaid with a sportsman aiming a wheel-lock rifle at a stag, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved horn patch-box cover (base-plate missing), and fore-end cap, horn butt-plate, and horn-tipped ramrod (forward ramrod-pipe missing), dated 1650 on the barrel and 1651 on the cheek-piece
29½in. barrel [E.125, S.12]
29½in. barrel [E.125, S.12]