A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, the breech dated, struck with a P, and engraved with initials MH (perhaps for Michael Haas), flat enclosed lock engraved with a mounted horseman and a castle within a landscape and with pierced and engraved cock and bridle to the cock-spring, stained walnut full stock with fluted fore-end, the butt carved in relief with foliage, a stag, a hind, a dog, and a rabbit, the cheek-piece inlaid with an oval dark horn plaque pressed with St. George and the Dragon and framed by horn scrolls and dots, the patch-box cover (base-plate defective) with a similar plaque pressed with a hound in pursuit of a stag, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, dark horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod (forward ramrod-pipe replaced in wood), dated 1682, perhaps Scwäbish-Gmünd

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A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, the breech dated, struck with a P, and engraved with initials MH (perhaps for Michael Haas), flat enclosed lock engraved with a mounted horseman and a castle within a landscape and with pierced and engraved cock and bridle to the cock-spring, stained walnut full stock with fluted fore-end, the butt carved in relief with foliage, a stag, a hind, a dog, and a rabbit, the cheek-piece inlaid with an oval dark horn plaque pressed with St. George and the Dragon and framed by horn scrolls and dots, the patch-box cover (base-plate defective) with a similar plaque pressed with a hound in pursuit of a stag, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, dark horn butt-plate and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod (forward ramrod-pipe replaced in wood), dated 1682, perhaps Scwäbish-Gmünd
34¼in. barrel [E.202, S.2]

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