Description
FINE GERMAN OR BOHEMIAN WHEEL LOCK SMOOTH BORE SPORTING RIFLE
CIRCA 1580
the plain lock with enclosed main spring, two stage sighted barrel, octagonal at the breech, the full stock profusely inlaid with staghorn, decorated with running hounds along the entire length of both sides in panels with stained black back ground, the patch box decorated with a pikeman holding a pole arm, the butt with a partly clad female and on the top side behind the barrel tang engraved two females wearing chastity belts
45in. (114cm) long, 20 bore
Provenance:
Ex Baron von Zylan