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A 20-BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE
Partly second half of the 17th century
With sighted octagonal barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with a mark, a standing halberdier, flat lock with pierced flat integral wheel-cover, engraved with flowerheads and foliage against a hatched ground on the outside, later wooden full stock inlaid with horn scrolls, and mother-of-pearl and horn roundels, later iron trigger-guard, and horn-tipped ramrod
27¼in. (69.2cm.) barrel
Partly second half of the 17th century
With sighted octagonal barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck at the breech with a mark, a standing halberdier, flat lock with pierced flat integral wheel-cover, engraved with flowerheads and foliage against a hatched ground on the outside, later wooden full stock inlaid with horn scrolls, and mother-of-pearl and horn roundels, later iron trigger-guard, and horn-tipped ramrod
27¼in. (69.2cm.) barrel