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A decorative wheel-lock sporting carbine (Terzarol) in German late 16th century style
The lock-plate probably late 16th century
With two-stage sighted barrel engraved with foliage at the muzzle, girdle and breech, the lock struck with the Nuremberg mark and with a maker's mark, scissors within a shield, external wheel with annular retaining bracket, sliding pan-cover, and decorated with gold- and silver-damascened scrollwork inhabited by a heron, full stock decorated with veneered ebonised panels inlaid with engraved white staghorn, green-stained staghorn and mother of pearl rosettes, foliage, scenes of the chase, mythical creatures, and a Classical warrior, the panels bordered throughout with engraved white staghorn bands and panels engraved with figures, the shaped cheek-piece incorporating a hunting whistle, baluster iron trigger and trigger-guard, the latter with tapering flat pistolgrip, engraved brass fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod.