A FINE NUREMBERG WHEEL-LOCK CARBINE with swamped sighted three-stage barrel octagonal at the muzzle and breech and spirally fluted between, plain lock with domed wheel-cover, pivoting safety-catch (spring missing), slotted pan-cover release button, and slotted stud which sets the trigger, the plate struck with Nuremberg mark and maker's mark GS, a hammer between and spectacles beneath (Neue Støckel 2710), the cock and cock-spring with chiselled details, figured full stock (fore-end chipped) inlaid with staghorn lines enclosing staghorn panels finely engraved with masks, profile heads, marine monsters, fruit, foliage and scrollwork, opposite the lock with an armourial shield, and around the butt-plate with scenes of the chase, staghorn butt-plate engraved with a female allegorical figure, probably Prudence, flush-fitting horn-inlaid patch-box cover, engraved horn fore-end cap, iron trigger-guard and belt hook, set trigger, and later ramrod, third quarter of the 16th Century