A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves and struck with indistinct maker's mark at the breech, flat lock with engraved exposed wheel with annular retaining bracket, the pan-cover release button in the form of a scallop shell, fruitwood full stock (minor damage and repairs) profusely inlaid with staghorn lines, scrolls and pellets enclosing plaques engraved with masks, strapwork, profile heads, scenes of the chase, at the ramrod entry and on the staghorn patch-box cover with a standing male figure in contemporary costume, and on the cheek-piece with scenes of the chase, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved horn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap (split), horn butt-plate, and horn-tipped ramrod (some inlay missing, some replaced, base-plate of patch-box cover missing), second quarter of the 17th Century