A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and engraved with scrollwork at the muzzle and breech, the latter stamped with a mark, a lion rampant, and inscribed 'H Salffett', flat lock with integral wheel-cover engraved with foliage and pierced with four circular holes, pan-cover release button engraved with a human face, and chiselled and engraved cock, stained full stock with fluted fore-end, sparsely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques (one missing), the butt carved with scrollwork and foliage in relief picked out in white staghorn pellets, staghorn covered patch-box cover engraved with a fox, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, horn butt-plate with iron button, engraved staghorn fore-end cap and forward ramrod-pipe, and horn-tipped ramrod, third quarter of the 17th Century