AN UNUSUAL WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped two-stage barrel rifled with eight grooves and inlaid throughout its length with interlaced designs in brass, and on the rectangular breech with a bird, a fish, and the date 'Ao 1620', open back-sight, and indistinct mark, flat lock with exposed wheel and chiselled three-pointed wheel-bracket (safety-catch removed), fruitwood full stock (cracked and repaired) profusely inlaid with horn lines, brass pellets, scrolls and ball-flowers involving brass plaques (one replaced) engraved with birds, animals, monsters, masks, profile portrait busts, and on the top of the butt with the inscription 'Dies Ebuss Heist Hensgen Ao 1622', brass-inlaid patch-box cover, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved brass ramrod-pipes, fore-end cap and butt-plate, and wooden ramrod, dated 1620/22, Baltic or Dutch 36½in. barrel [E.118, S.14
AN UNUSUAL WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE with swamped two-stage barrel rifled with eight grooves and inlaid throughout its length with interlaced designs in brass, and on the rectangular breech with a bird, a fish, and the date 'Ao 1620', open back-sight, and indistinct mark, flat lock with exposed wheel and chiselled three-pointed wheel-bracket (safety-catch removed), fruitwood full stock (cracked and repaired) profusely inlaid with horn lines, brass pellets, scrolls and ball-flowers involving brass plaques (one replaced) engraved with birds, animals, monsters, masks, profile portrait busts, and on the top of the butt with the inscription 'Dies Ebuss Heist Hensgen Ao 1622', brass-inlaid patch-box cover, iron trigger-guard, set trigger, engraved brass ramrod-pipes, fore-end cap and butt-plate, and wooden ramrod, dated 1620/22, Baltic or Dutch 36½in. barrel [E.118, S.14
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