A GERMAN COMPOSITE WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with octagonal sighted barrel, flat lock with engraved raised integral wheel-cover, the plate engraved with a sportsman shooting a bird in a landscape, the side of the pan signed 'Michael Matl', the full stock inlaid in the 17th Century style with white staghorn scrolls, pellets, animals, figures, a profile bust and a boar hunt, and on the cheek-piece with a coat-of-arms, staghorn-inlaid horn-mounted patch-box cover, brass mounts including indented trigger-guard, set trigger (defective), and associated horn-tipped ramrod, 17th/19th Century