A SAXON WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with signed and dated octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves and with grooved breech, flat lock with integral brass wheel-cover engraved with a wreath enclosing the maker's initials and the date, chiselled cock and cock-spring (pan-cover release button defective), stained walnut full stock (cracked) with fluted fore-end, the butt and patch-box cover carved in relief with animals and tendrils in the manner of the so-called 'Meister der Tierkopfranke', iron trigger-guard, set trigger (associated), engraved horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod (horn ramrod-pipe missing), by Bastian From, Heiligenstadt, dated 1665