AN ALSATIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with heavy swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and struck twice at the breech with maker's mark (Neue Støckel 487), flat lock struck with the Stasburg mark (Neue Støckel 1633), pierced brass wheel-cover engraved with two winged female demi-figures, engraved brass pan-cover release button and bridle to the cock-spring, the cock engraved with three marine monsters, fruitwood full stock with fluted fore-end (cracked), the butt inlaid with engraved horn panels, the cheek-piece with a sportsman aiming a wheel-lock rifle at a stag, the staghorn patch-box cover engraved with scrolls, masks, and a stag and a hind in a landscape, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, dark horn butt-plate, and horn-tipped ramrod, by Lorenz Helbe of Strasburg, third quarter of the 17th Century 28¼in. barrel [E.172, S.5]