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A GERMAN 20-BORE WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE
MID-17TH CENTURY
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A GERMAN 20-BORE WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE
MID-17TH CENTURY
With octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, flat lock with internal wheel and manual sliding pan-cover, the lock-plate engraved with foliage and a double-headed eagle, engraved cock, set triggers, full stock inset with engraved staghorn plaques, sliding patchbox-cover with staghorn plaque engraved with a scene of the chase, iron trigger-guard with maker's stamp retaining traces of gilding, and later horn-tipped ramrod
25 ½ in. (65 cm.) barrel
MID-17TH CENTURY
With octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, flat lock with internal wheel and manual sliding pan-cover, the lock-plate engraved with foliage and a double-headed eagle, engraved cock, set triggers, full stock inset with engraved staghorn plaques, sliding patchbox-cover with staghorn plaque engraved with a scene of the chase, iron trigger-guard with maker's stamp retaining traces of gilding, and later horn-tipped ramrod
25 ½ in. (65 cm.) barrel