AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF GERMAN AIR GUNS, one constructed so as to convert to flintlock ignition, each with polygonal sighted barrel octagonal at the breech and swamped at the muzzle, signed flat bevelled locks each with chiselled details and engraved on the tail with a mounted figure in armour, and in front of the cock with a classical figure in a carriot drawn by stags, carved figured walnut half-stocks with minor differences, gilt-brass mounts engraved with symmetrical strapwork on a hatched ground, each trigger-guard with chiselled acanthus finial, pierced foliate side-plates, each butt containing the reservoir, each butt-plate with hinged cover over the aperture for the pump, engraved gilt-brass barrel-bands and ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped ramrods (the butts with cracks and minor repairs), by Mathias Wider, Nickelspurch, early 18th Century