CIRCA 1600
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A 10-Bore German Wheel-Lock Sporting Rifle
Circa 1600
With three-stage sighted multigroove-rifled barrel struck with Suhl marks (Neue Støckel 1672, 1694) on the octagonal breech, plain lock with domed wheel-cover, full stock (extensively repaired) inlaid with white staghorn lines and roundels (some replaced), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and later barrel pins, ramrod and patch-box cover (barrel and lock with some pitting, the former perhaps associated)
49in. (124.4cm.) barrel
Circa 1600
With three-stage sighted multigroove-rifled barrel struck with Suhl marks (Neue Støckel 1672, 1694) on the octagonal breech, plain lock with domed wheel-cover, full stock (extensively repaired) inlaid with white staghorn lines and roundels (some replaced), iron trigger-guard, set trigger, and later barrel pins, ramrod and patch-box cover (barrel and lock with some pitting, the former perhaps associated)
49in. (124.4cm.) barrel