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A 30-Bore German Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle (Müller-Büchse)
By Johann Heinrich Albrecht, Darmstadt, circa 1700
With blued swamped octagonal sighted barrel cut with seven grooves, the top of the breech with a mark, a bird in a rectangle (Neue Støckel 7009), and the rear with two engraved bands, plain tang, rounded border engraved lock retained by three side-nails and signed 'Albrecht a Darmstat (sic)' within a chiselled cartouche, domed integral wheel-cover, chiselled blued cock and spring, and blued pan, pan-cover, and release button, moulded figured walnut full stock carved in relief with foliage, iron mounts including elaborate pierced and chiselled side-plate involving two monster-heads, the butt-plate stamped 'P/N. 11', sliding patch-box cover carved in relief with a scene of the chase and incised 'Au Poil Et A La Plume', cheek-piece, set trigger, iron sling mounts, white staghorn fore-end cap, faceted iron ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped iron ramrod, in fine condition throughout with much original finish
24 1/8in. (61.2cm.) barrel