A GERMAN MIQUELET-LOCK GUN with earlier four-stage Turkish barrel octagonal at the breech and decorated with engraved shaped panels in encrusted silver, plain tang, earlier Turkish lock inlaid with silver lines and scrolls and with filed details, moulded finely figured walnut full stock incised with lines and carved with foliage in low relief behind the barrel tang and at each end of the cheek-piece, scroll engraved brass mounts, turned brass ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod, in very fine condition throughout, the butt with brass armoury tag stamped with the number 286, mid-18th Century